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Speaker: Greer Donley, JD, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, John E. Murray Scholar, and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh Law
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar
Please join us for this Spring Series Virtual Grand Rounds presentation with 1.0 hour Indiana CLE (pending approval), featuring Greer Donley, JD, John E. Murray Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh Law School.
This presentation will cover a variety of topics, including the FDA’s regulation of medication abortion, the antiabortion attempts to restrict access to medication abortion through litigation (including a case the Supreme Court will hear this term), the possible revival of the Comstock Act (banning the mailing of abortion pills), the enactment of shield laws to protect abortion providers who are mailing pills into red states, and the use of emerging legal theory—FDA preemption—to trump state abortion bans. These wide-ranging topics span a variety of court cases, statutory law, and regulatory law. By the end, participants will have a much stronger grasp on how this medication is regulated and how both movements are using the law to attempt to expand or restrict access to it.
This program will only be offered online and you must register for the Zoom Webinar using the link below. Following registration, you will receive an email with a link to join the Webinar. To enable participation in the polling throughout the webinar for CLE credit, please ensure that you are joining the webinar from the Zoom application (desktop or mobile). Note that joining the webinar from a web browser is not compatible and doing so will result in not receiving CLE credit.
E-mail certificates will be provided certifying attendance for those wishing to apply for CLE credit outside of Indiana.
CEU Certificates are available for Indiana Behavioral Health & Human Services Providers.
About the Speaker
A Related Paper: "Abortion Pills"
Greer Donley is a national expert on abortion and the law. Professor Donley has published widely and been quoted extensively in the media, especially on topics related to medication abortion, interjurisdictional abortion conflicts, and the impact of abortion bans on other aspects of reproductive healthcare.
Professor Donley’s scholarly works have been published in the Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review. Her popular writing often appears in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Slate. Her paper, The New Abortion Battleground, co-authored with David S. Cohen and Rachel Rebouché, was downloaded over 20,000 times, covered widely in the media, and cited by the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, Professor Donley has regularly applied her expertise to advocacy work. Professor Donley helped design, draft, and pass the first abortion shield law in Connecticut, which has now been replicated in many states and cities. She also helped draft an FDA Law Scholars amicus brief in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA case and was one of two primary drafters of a citizen petition to the FDA to add miscarriage management to the mifepristone label.
Professor Donley’s scholarship, advocacy, and teaching have been recognized through a variety of awards, including a Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award (junior category), Marion Young Award for Political Engagement, Robert T. Harper Excellence in Teaching Award, Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law, and SLU & ASLME Health Law Scholar Award. In 2022, she was the 11th most downloaded law professor on SSRN.
Before joining academia in 2018, Professor Donley was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins, LLP where she advised a variety of healthcare clients in fraud and abuse, administrative law, and FDA law. She also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Robert Sack on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before law school, she was a fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and Order of the Coif from the University of Michigan Law School, serving as an Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law.
