Join the authors of “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood” and “After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate” for a timely and informative conversation about women’s reproductive rights in the United States. The battle over women's reproductive autonomy has intensified in recent years beyond debates about abortion rights to whether states can revoke or intervene in a pregnant woman's end of life decision-making, whether a woman can be forced to have a c-section under threat of criminal prosecution, whether falling down steps can be criminally punished during pregnancy and many other issues.

Discussion Will Include:

• The rise in state efforts to curtail women's reproductive rights as well as the legal, social, and medical implications.
• Historical backdrop and insights regarding contemporary constraints in reproductive healthcare.
• Predictions about what the future of reproductive rights might hold given the battles on these matters in state legislatures as well as the courts.
• Recent United Supreme Court decision, June Medical v. Russo.

Presented by:
Anna North (moderator), Senior Reporter, Vox
Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine Law
Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor, Florida State University College of Law

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