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Abortion Ally or Abettor: Accomplice and Conspiracy Liability After Dobbs

The bristle of state laws criminalizing abortion after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization raises important questions about accomplice and conspiracy liability for helping people pursue reproductive freedoms out of state. This Article is the first to ground defenses to liability for helping people pursue reproductive and gender freedoms after Dobbs in anti-totalitarian theory and in light of how courts have curbed the criminalization of compassion to migrants.

The Ordinary Questions Doctrine

In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court overruled Chevron as inconsistent with the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), which requires courts to decide “all relevant questions of law” and therefore prohibits them from deferring to agency interpretations because the relevant statutory language is ambiguous. A different approach now governs judicial review of the countless routine, often specialized questions of statutory interpretation that agencies answer in the normal course of implementing their statutes—the “ordinary” questions.