Slate: “Two professors at the University of Texas at Austin are suing for the right to penalize students who miss class to obtain an abortion out of state. The professors, John Hatfield and Daniel Bonevac, are contesting the Biden administration’s efforts to shield students from retaliation when they obtain reproductive health care, a long-standing guarantee under Title IX. They also demand the freedom to discriminate against students and teaching assistants who identify as LGBTQ.
On Saturday’s bonus Slate Plus episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss the lawsuit, which is part of a broader, coordinated attack on both Title IX and reproductive health care. “