Kimberly Mutcherson
@professormutch.bsky.social
Law Professor focused on reproductive justice. Recovering Law Dean. Avid consumer of pop culture.
Many of us have been talking about the intersection of abortion and assisted reproduction for a couple of decades now, so I was glad to have a chance to talk about the issue on the Critically Speaking podcast!
When IVF meets law: Are frozen embryos people, property, or something in between?
LISTEN: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
Discover the complexities with expert @professormutch.bsky.social on this week’s Critically Speaking podcast.
#frozenembryos #conception
LISTEN: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
Discover the complexities with expert @professormutch.bsky.social on this week’s Critically Speaking podcast.
#frozenembryos #conception
June 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Many of us have been talking about the intersection of abortion and assisted reproduction for a couple of decades now, so I was glad to have a chance to talk about the issue on the Critically Speaking podcast!
This Juneteenth at NJPAC, you can be present for the release and discussion of the New Jersey Reparations Council’s groundbreaking report, For Such a Time as This: The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey.
Register here: www.njpac.org/event/the-no...
Register here: www.njpac.org/event/the-no...
the nowness of reparations for black people in new jersey: a timely conversation
Buy tickets to at NJPAC. Located in Newark, NJPAC is New Jersey's leading performing arts center.
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June 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This Juneteenth at NJPAC, you can be present for the release and discussion of the New Jersey Reparations Council’s groundbreaking report, For Such a Time as This: The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey.
Register here: www.njpac.org/event/the-no...
Register here: www.njpac.org/event/the-no...
Reposted by Kimberly Mutcherson
“It’s always a mistake to invite law enforcement into your reproductive life."
#RutgersLaw Professor @professormutch.bsky.social weighs in on the new warning from a West Virginia prosecutor that women who have miscarriages could get in trouble with the law: www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...
#lawsky
#RutgersLaw Professor @professormutch.bsky.social weighs in on the new warning from a West Virginia prosecutor that women who have miscarriages could get in trouble with the law: www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...
#lawsky
A West Virginia prosecutor is warning women that a miscarriage could lead to criminal charges | CNN
Amid a constantly changing reproductive landscape, one West Virginia prosecutor is warning people who have miscarriages in his state that they could get in trouble with the law.
www.cnn.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“It’s always a mistake to invite law enforcement into your reproductive life."
#RutgersLaw Professor @professormutch.bsky.social weighs in on the new warning from a West Virginia prosecutor that women who have miscarriages could get in trouble with the law: www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...
#lawsky
#RutgersLaw Professor @professormutch.bsky.social weighs in on the new warning from a West Virginia prosecutor that women who have miscarriages could get in trouble with the law: www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...
#lawsky
Pro tip: do not call the cops to tell them that you’ve had a miscarriage in a state that bans almost all abortions.
Glad to be quoted here along with greats like @drkbrandi.bsky.social!!
Glad to be quoted here along with greats like @drkbrandi.bsky.social!!
Thanks @cnn.com for quoting me and cool people I respect (including my #NJ buddy @professormutch.bsky.social) about how #WV is suggesting people call the cops when they miscarry & hold onto their tissue. Just another example of unnecessarily policing pregnant people.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...
A West Virginia prosecutor is warning women that a miscarriage could lead to criminal charges | CNN
Amid a constantly changing reproductive landscape, one West Virginia prosecutor is warning people who have miscarriages in his state that they could get in trouble with the law.
www.cnn.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Pro tip: do not call the cops to tell them that you’ve had a miscarriage in a state that bans almost all abortions.
Glad to be quoted here along with greats like @drkbrandi.bsky.social!!
Glad to be quoted here along with greats like @drkbrandi.bsky.social!!
Reposted by Kimberly Mutcherson
Is Brooklyn in the house?! I hope so. Join James Forman Jr. and me for a conversation about transportation injustice, systemic racism, and how we can move forward to build back better for everyone. June 9th at 6:30 pm - www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...
June 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Is Brooklyn in the house?! I hope so. Join James Forman Jr. and me for a conversation about transportation injustice, systemic racism, and how we can move forward to build back better for everyone. June 9th at 6:30 pm - www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...
Reposted by Kimberly Mutcherson
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Over the last four months, the legal world — and the country — has been plunged into chaos, and the Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility,” writes Kate Shaw in a guest essay.
“Over the last four months, the legal world — and the country — has been plunged into chaos, and the Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility,” writes Kate Shaw in a guest essay.
Opinion | Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power?
www.nytimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Over the last four months, the legal world — and the country — has been plunged into chaos, and the Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility,” writes Kate Shaw in a guest essay.
“Over the last four months, the legal world — and the country — has been plunged into chaos, and the Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility,” writes Kate Shaw in a guest essay.
My guest essay for @nytimes.com about Adriana Smith. This situation is a tragedy from top to bottom, and there is so much complexity that can't be teased out in so few words. May she and the family left behind find peace soon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
Opinion | A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable.
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My guest essay for @nytimes.com about Adriana Smith. This situation is a tragedy from top to bottom, and there is so much complexity that can't be teased out in so few words. May she and the family left behind find peace soon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
On today’s agenda at LSA: New Books in The Field, featuring great books by @dsc250.bsky.social, @jillwieberlens.bsky.social, and @jrabrams.bsky.social among others. I’ll link to some of them below!
May 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
On today’s agenda at LSA: New Books in The Field, featuring great books by @dsc250.bsky.social, @jillwieberlens.bsky.social, and @jrabrams.bsky.social among others. I’ll link to some of them below!
Update on Adriana Smith in GA. The AG has made clear that the state’s abortion law does NOT require that Ms. Smith remain on life support.
May 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Update on Adriana Smith in GA. The AG has made clear that the state’s abortion law does NOT require that Ms. Smith remain on life support.
This is unconscionable and unethical and the claim that it is required under the state’s abortion law is cowardice at its finest. Claiming to be acting in the interest of a fetus that is gestating in a dead body is unbelievably awful and cruel. www.npr.org/2025/05/16/n...
Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus due to abortion ban
Georgia's law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected doesn't allow relatives to have a say in whether a pregnant woman is kept on life support.
www.npr.org
May 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is unconscionable and unethical and the claim that it is required under the state’s abortion law is cowardice at its finest. Claiming to be acting in the interest of a fetus that is gestating in a dead body is unbelievably awful and cruel. www.npr.org/2025/05/16/n...
This fucking administration.
May 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This fucking administration.
Glass half empty: Currently stuck on an Amtrak train somewhere between Baltimore and DC, while something mysterious takes place that involved calling in the police and the coroner! This is not good.
Glass half full: This train has some of the best non-Acela WiFi I’ve ever experienced.
Glass half full: This train has some of the best non-Acela WiFi I’ve ever experienced.
May 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Glass half empty: Currently stuck on an Amtrak train somewhere between Baltimore and DC, while something mysterious takes place that involved calling in the police and the coroner! This is not good.
Glass half full: This train has some of the best non-Acela WiFi I’ve ever experienced.
Glass half full: This train has some of the best non-Acela WiFi I’ve ever experienced.
Got to spend some time strategizing and smiling with some of my favorite people not so long ago. Grateful for their friendship and mentorship over many years!
April 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Got to spend some time strategizing and smiling with some of my favorite people not so long ago. Grateful for their friendship and mentorship over many years!
Starting this morning listening to one of my favorite people and an incredible scholar, Khiara Bridges, deliver the keynote at Northeastern Law’s conference: 3 Years after Dobbs- The Reproductive Justice Landscape.
April 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Starting this morning listening to one of my favorite people and an incredible scholar, Khiara Bridges, deliver the keynote at Northeastern Law’s conference: 3 Years after Dobbs- The Reproductive Justice Landscape.
Reposted by Kimberly Mutcherson
Very excited to share this symposium now available on Balkinization! And very proud to be a part of it:
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/04/balk...
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/04/balk...
Balkinization: Balkinization Symposium on Legal Pathways Beyond Dobbs-- Collected Posts
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Very excited to share this symposium now available on Balkinization! And very proud to be a part of it:
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/04/balk...
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/04/balk...
The party of life.
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The party of life.
Weird move for the self-proclaimed “father of IVF.” 🙄
New: The entire CDC team focused on infertility & other assisted repro technology was laid off today as part of the larger CDC cuts.
The small but highly specialized group consists of infertility researchers & experts responsible for tracking IVF cycles & creating data.
The small but highly specialized group consists of infertility researchers & experts responsible for tracking IVF cycles & creating data.
April 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Weird move for the self-proclaimed “father of IVF.” 🙄
Yes, please.
Elon’s coming to Wisconsin to hand out million dollar checks in his bribe scheme.
They should arrest him when he does.
They should arrest him when he does.
This latest vote-buying scheme by Musk incredibly corrupt, at same time Tesla suing Wisconsin, and likely illegal
It is a felony in Wisconsin to offer, give, lend or promise to lend or give anything of value to induce a voter to cast a ballot or not vote.
It is a felony in Wisconsin to offer, give, lend or promise to lend or give anything of value to induce a voter to cast a ballot or not vote.
March 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yes, please.
Excited to spend some time in DC tomorrow to talk about my latest work in progress!
Join us tomorrow for an engaging discussion with @professormutch.bsky.social in the next J.D. Colloquium session, “Reproductive Justice, Bioethics, and Family and Health Law.”
*This event is only open to @georgetownlaw.bsky.social J.D. and LL.M. students.
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
*This event is only open to @georgetownlaw.bsky.social J.D. and LL.M. students.
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Excited to spend some time in DC tomorrow to talk about my latest work in progress!
The vibe here is very: Elon was friends with his Black servants.
This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
March 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The vibe here is very: Elon was friends with his Black servants.
Happy International Women’s Day to all of the fabulous women out there who’ve dedicated themselves to fighting the fuckery in ways big and small!!
March 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Happy International Women’s Day to all of the fabulous women out there who’ve dedicated themselves to fighting the fuckery in ways big and small!!
Reposted by Kimberly Mutcherson
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
February 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
The hits keep coming (as they should).
A federal judge issued the second temporary restraining order against Trump’s Executive Order to end birthright citizenship, blocking it from going into effect on February 19. Read: bit.ly/40oplbc
February 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The hits keep coming (as they should).
Reposted by Kimberly Mutcherson
ESSENTIAL: DO not take "buy out." Litigation underway: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
CREW, Democracy Forward sue to block Trump's illegal plan to fire government workers - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
President Trump’s executive order paving the way to convert merit-based civil servants to at-will employees, enabling political appointees to fire and replace them with loyalists, is unlawful and exce...
www.citizensforethics.org
February 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
ESSENTIAL: DO not take "buy out." Litigation underway: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
Reposted by Kimberly Mutcherson
I ugly chuckled at all of this and you KNOW how that sounds, Damien.
February 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I ugly chuckled at all of this and you KNOW how that sounds, Damien.