You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Rehnquist's New Approach to Pregnancy Discrimination in HIBBS
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REHNQUIST'S NEW APPROACH TO
PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION IN HIBBS
Reva B. Siegel*
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1871
I. REHNQUIST, THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT, THE NEW RIGHT, AND
THE FA M ILY ........................................................................................... 1874
II. REHNQUIST'S DECISION IN HIBBS............................................................. 1881
III. THE REACH OF HIBBS: REMEDYING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
MOTHERS AND MOTHERS-TO-BE .......................... ........................ 1886
IV. HIBBS, GEDULDIG, AND CASEY ................................................................ 1891
CONCLUSION ................................................................................................. 1897
INTRODUCTION
Over the years I have written more in criticism of Chief Justice Rehnquist's
Fourteenth Amendment opinions than in praise of them.' This Article marks a
* Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale University. Many thanks to Jack
Balkin, Dawn Johnsen, Robert Post, Judith Resnik, and Priscilla Smith for their comments
on the Article and to Elyse Cowgill, Abby Horn, Ron Levy, and Jessica Roberts for research
assistance.
1. See, e.g., Robert C. Post & Reva B. Siegel, Equal Protection by Law: Federal
Antidiscrimination Legislation After Morrison and Kimel, 110 YALE L.J. 441 (2000)
[hereinafter Post & Siegel, Equal Protection by Law] (showing an alternate basis for
Morrison in the federalism history of the Second Reconstruction); Robert C. Post & Reva B.
Siegel, Legislative Constitutionalism and Section Five Power: Policentric Interpretation of
the Family and Medical Leave Act, 112 YALE L.J. 1943 (2003) [hereinafter Post & Siegel,
Legislative Constitutionalism] (arguing for an approach to the Section 5 power that would
recognize Congress's role in interpreting the Constitution as it enforces it); Robert C. Post &
Reva B. Siegel, Protecting the Constitution from the People: Juricentric Restrictions on
Section Five Power, 78 IND. L.J. 1 (2003) [hereinafter Post & Siegel, Protecting the
Constitution from the People] (objecting to the juricentricity of current Section 5 doctrine);
Reva B. Siegel, Reasoning from the Body: A Historical Perspective on Abortion Regulation
and Questions of Equal Protection, 44 STAN. L. REv. 261 (1992) [hereinafter Siegel,
Reasoning from the Body] (arguing that the Court's habit of reasoning from the body has
produced equal protection and substantive due process doctrine that fails to recognize and
restrain state action that enforces traditional sex roles); Reva B. Siegel, Concurring Opinion,
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Rehnquist's New Approach to Pregnancy Discrimination in HIBBS
You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Rehnquist's New Approach to Pregnancy Discrimination in HIBBS