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Georgetown faculty served as legal counsel to Planned Parenthood

December 28, 2009

Two Georgetown University law professors have served as legal counsel to Planned Parenthood, according to the university’s web site.

Professor Peter J. Rubin, according to his web page, “served as counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court for, among others, Dr. Timothy Quill and two other doctors in Vacco v. Quill, a challenge to the constitutionality of New York's ban on physician assisted suicide, and Planned Parenthood in Rust v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court challenge to the abortion ‘gag rule’ imposed in the 1980s upon family planning clinics that received federal funding.”

Professor Julie E. Cohen, who has taught at Georgetown since 1999, was a “member of pro bono team that represented Bay Area Planned Parenthood affiliates in abortion clinic access litigation” from 1992 to 1995, according to her curriculum vitate.

Founded in 1789 by the Jesuits, Georgetown University has 15,318 students, 7,092 of whom are undergraduates.

Source(s): these links will take you to other sites, in a new window.

• Julie E. Cohen (Georgetown University)
• Peter J. Rubin (Georgetown University)
• Georgetown program placed additional fellows with Planned Parenthood (CWN, 12/24)

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• Posted by: williiam ronner - Dec. 28, 2009 1:26 PM ET USA

  Two Jewish profs at Georgetown dissent on Catholic teachings on abortion. Would Yeshiva or any Jewish college hire two Catholic profs who denied the persecution of Jews during the Hitler reign?