One homecoming bouquet made and I’m thinking of ditching the law professor gig.

Whoa - CNN reports that Rs are discussing giving up on Miller-Meeks (IA-01), Kean (NJ-07), and Harding (NE-02). If true, I think I spy 🌊 forming… (Bear in mind: Rs have lots of $$, so pulling means both that these battlegrounds must really be hopeless, and that they need $$ in MANY other races)

A faculty meeting story.

Can confirm that Hawkeyes is often shortened to Hawks.

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

I take it back!!!

Perhaps the Iowa defense is as good as the Iowa offense is bad… And the Iowa defense is really good.

A new analysis shows that nearly 35% of U.S. counties have zero birth centers, zero hospitals providing labor and delivery services, and zero obstetric clinicians. It is difficult to overstate how alarming these findings are.

Rural Ireland Thinks: Over 80% support workplace leave for women who have had abortions More than four in five respondents to the Irish Examiner's Rural Ireland survey support extending new workplace leave entitlements for early pregnancy loss to women who have had abortions

Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, who's running for Senate, says the Iran war "needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end." A messaging pivot: Hinson voted NO six times on House resolutions directing Trump to end the Iran war — including as recently as last week.

Madison…

Wow.

Ours are.

So excited to visit SLU tomorrow! (Even with the apparent heat wave!!)

PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED, reviewed in The New Yorker: "There are a seemingly infinite number of ways that pregnancy can be misunderstood, mislabelled, or oversimplified, whether because of deceptively binary tests or cultural narratives that tell us pregnancy is a linear experience.”

It's amazing how much access to health care improves when you cross state lines. (This post is about kid covid vaccines, but you can take it however you want to.)

The way the voice sneers when it says “liberal” in the josh turek attack ads—you’d think they were saying “serial killer”…

Last, the article seeks to distinguish male claims that should be allowed -- based on tortiously caused pregnancy loss. There, the pregnant person didn't consent. And the man will likely be better able to demonstrate damages with a longer pregnancy timeline despite his disembodied experience. /end

These wrongful death lawsuits are meant to chill doctors from prescribing abortion pills to those in ban states. And the lawsuits may very well be filed (and have been) -- but that doesn't mean the lawsuits will be successful. The likely lack of success should also be part of the risk calculus. 3/