Description

The CLE will discuss abortion access and regulations in Texas, including ongoing litigation regarding the six-week ban and Texas’s pre-Roe and post-Dobbs criminal prohibitions on abortion providers. The CLE will identify related surveillance, enforcement, civil, and criminal legal tools that have been deployed to chill further abortion access post-Dobbs and strategies for practitioners to protect themselves and their clients in this environment.  We will discuss emerging threats and opportunities for reproductive justice and healthcare.

Speakers:

David Donatti is a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Texas, where he practices civil rights and constitutional law. He has been counsel on reproductive rights and justice cases, including representing healthcare providers in Whole Women’s Health v. Jackson, challenging Texas’s six-week abortion ban in front of the United States and Texas Supreme Courts.