Elizabeth W Sepper in the News

The Christian Science Monitor April 21, 2023

‘Wildly problematic’: Standing, the Supreme Court, and mifepristone

Professor Elizabeth Sepper comments on the potential implications of using the mifepristone case to expand the standing doctrine and how it would affect federal lawmaking.

Gerald Groff, a Christian former postal worker in rural southeast Pennsylvania, standing by USPS mailboxes.

Time April 17, 2023

The Post Office Made a Christian Employee Work on Sundays. Now He’s at the Supreme Court

Professor Elizabeth Sepper discusses religious liberty in the upcoming Supreme Court Groff v. DeJoy case, where a religious United States postal worker was denied Sabbath observance on Sunday shifts.

A nurse showing a box of the RU486 pill.

Bloomberg Law April 13, 2023

Abortion High Court Case May Turn on Doctors’ Power to Sue

Professor Elizabeth Sepper discusses the implications of the Fifth Circuit's mifepristone ruling and points out there is no foundation to claims of injury related to medical abortions.

Anti-abortion activists hold up a sign in front of the US Supreme Court building as as pro- and anti-abortion demonstrators protested in Washington, DC.

Bloomberg Law April 13, 2023

Abortion Pill Prescribers Are Uncertain With New Court Order

Professor Elizabeth Sepper predicts that the suspension of approval of generic mifepristone will reduce supply and availability of medication abortion in an article about the uncertainty surrounding abortion pill access.

NBC News April 13, 2023

Drug companies raise alarm over loss of ‘gold standard’ FDA approval after abortion pill ruling

Professor Elizabeth Sepper is interviewed for a news segment discussing the Justice Department's attempt to prevent a rollback of mifepristone access.

Literature about medication abortions is seen at the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

1A On NPR April 13, 2023

Where Abortion Pill Access Stands

Professor Elizabeth Sepper is interviewed for a podcast discussing the ongoing mifepristone legal battle.

Texas Standard April 10, 2023

Medication abortion in peril after conflicting court rulings out of Texas and Washington state

Professor Elizabeth Sepper is interviewed on what will happen to abortion access following a set of contradictory rulings from two federal judges on the access to abortion pill mifepristone.

Bloomberg Law April 10, 2023

Two Judges, Two Abortion Pill Rulings—’Totally Different Worlds’

Professor Elizabeth Sepper and Professor Stephen Vladeck both are quoted in an article about conflicting court rulings from two U.S. district court judges on an abortion drug.

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