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Involuntary Reproductive Servitude: Forced Pregnancy, Abortion, and the Thirteenth Amendment
Michele Goodwin
Chancellor’s Professor of Law & Founding Director, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy at the University of California, Irvine.

Much appreciation to the Chicago Legal Forum editors and staff for their thoughtful editorial contributions. My gratitude to the research librarians at Georgetown University Law Center who assisted in my data collection. My appreciation to Dorothy Brown, David Cruz, Victoria Nourse, Dorothy Roberts, Gregory Shaffer, Allison Whelan, Mary Ziegler.

The balance of this Essay describes and analyzes originalism from a different point of view, centering the experiences of Black women and girls. It then argues that the Court's selective canvassing of history exposes a serious fault in the legitimacy, integrity, and character of not only Dobbs, but also its supposed application of originalist methodology.

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Borrowed Wombs: On Uterus Transplants and the "Right to Experience Pregnancy"
Glenn Cohen
Deputy Dean and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics.

I thank Vrushab Gowda and Jessica Cianci for excellent research assistance pertinent to this article. I thank Alex Chen, participants at the University of Miami’s Legal Theory Workshop, and participants in the Forum’s symposium for their comments.

In December of 2017, the first birth from a uterus transplant in America occurred in Dallas, Texas. This article's focus is to compare uterus transplants to other ways to achieve parenthood, to evaluate what kinds of rights claims those who seek to use uterus transplants are making against the state and offer some tentative thoughts on how those claims should be treated.

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Managing and Monitoring the Menopausal Body
Naomi R. Cahn
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law, the Nancy L. Buc ’69 Research Professor in Democracy and Equity, and Director of the Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Bridget J. Crawford
University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.
Emily Gold Waldman
Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

The co-authors have written three articles exploring different aspects of menopause and the law. To reflect the collaborative effort, each article adopts a different position for the three coauthors’ names. The other two articles are Bridget J. Crawford, Emily Gold Waldman & Naomi R. Cahn, Working Through Menopause, 99  Wash. U. L. Rev. 1531 (2022) and Emily Gold Waldman, Naomi R. Cahn & Bridget J. Crawford, Contextualizing Menopause in the Law, 45 Harv. J. L. & Gender (2022).

This Essay explores how menopausal bodies are managed and monitored in contemporary U.S. culture. The focus is on two distinct aspects of that management and monitoring: menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) and the burgeoning market for technology-driven menopause products and services.

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Abortion Experts
Aziza Ahmed
Professor of Law and R. Gordan Butler Scholar of International Law at the Boston University School of Law

I would like to thank Mary Anne Case, Jonathan Masur, and the editors of the University of Chicago Legal Forum for including me on this symposium and for their helpful comments. I am also grateful to the participants of the Baby Markets 2022 with special thanks to Michele Goodwin and Antwann Simpkins for comments provided at the workshop.

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade, has intensified the fight for access to medication abortion. I argue that conservative and progressive advocacy over medication abortion are windows into how courts legitimize and delegitimize different types of expertise in the service of political goals.