Michele Goodwin

Michele Goodwin is the Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law and faculty director of the O'Neill Institute. Her scholarship addresses constitutional law, healthcare and bioethics, including reproductive rights. She previously taught at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Minnesota and was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Her books include Policing the Womb, and she hosts On the Issues with Michele Goodwin.

What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Michele Goodwin on 2026 Midterm Elections, Media, and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Michele Goodwin

Michele Goodwin

Role at the time: Georgetown law professor and host of Fifteen Minutes of Feminism

Condemned

Statement summary

Goodwin criticizes the advertisement as debasing and questions the officials who defended it.

“an ad that is so debasing and unworthy of being run”
Open the original interview (opens in a new tab)Michele Goodwin and Moira Donegan discuss the Acton attack adFull podcast transcript; opening and discussion beginning It is abhorrent
Why we used this label

Goodwin expressly condemns running the advertisement.

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