Ever-Tighter U.S. Abortion Limits Probe Boundary of Roe v. Wade Wendy Parmet, associate dean at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, said in an e-mail she isn’t surprised by the Arkansas law because it is “the next step in a trend.” “What will be interesting is whether by going this far, anti-abortion opponents in Arkansas have overplayed their hand,” Parmet said in an e-mail.