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The president’s executive order protecting some abortion access won’t change how some states regulate access, IU McKinney Professor Jennifer Drobac explained in a news story for WTHR. President Joe Biden signed an executive order intended to curtail penalties women seeking abortion care may face. The story appeared July 8.

The order provides for mobile clinics that would be placed at the borders of states where abortion is allowed but that won’t guarantee access, Professor Drobac said.

“We’re soon going to have so many states back-to-back that you’re going to have to travel for thousands of miles to get to a border where abortion and abortion care is legal,” Professor Drobac said in the story.

Professor Drobac is a widely known expert on sexual harassment law. She is an author of the textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases and Practice, recently published by Carolina Academic Press. She co-authored the book with Professor Carrie N. Baker of Smith College and Professor Rigel C. Oliveri of the University of Missouri School of Law. Professor Drobac is at work on her next book, The Myth of Consent, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. That work will explore the neuroscience of adult decision making and how the science should influence law reform, particularly the law of consent. She is a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law.