Policing Reproduction: From Slavery Through the Present

Tuesday, March 16, 12:30pm - 2:00pm (EDT)

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Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine & Psychiatry
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Chancellor’s Professor of Law
Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy
University of California Irvine School of Law

Abstract: This lecture will offer an historical perspective on the exercise of state power to control women’s bodies and reproduction. The exercise of state power to control reproduction includes criminalizing pregnant women’s use of drugs (an obvious example), but also extends to restrictions on access to abortion, forcing women to follow medical advice against their will, and other examples. The lecture will describe how poor women and women of color are disproportionately subjected to this policing, with devastating and demoralizing effects.

Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_25IJNA5JTTK2a3AcjK-iBQ

Add to Calendar 2021/03/16 12:30:00 2021/03/16 14:00:00 America/New_York Policing Reproduction: From Slavery Through the Present Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine & Psychiatry
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Chancellor’s Professor of Law
Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy
University of California Irvine School of Law

Abstract: This lecture will offer an historical perspective on the exercise of state power to control women’s bodies and reproduction. The exercise of state power to control reproduction includes criminalizing pregnant women’s use of drugs (an obvious example), but also extends to restrictions on access to abortion, forcing women to follow medical advice against their will, and other examples. The lecture will describe how poor women and women of color are disproportionately subjected to this policing, with devastating and demoralizing effects.

Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_25IJNA5JTTK2a3AcjK-iBQ Online: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_25IJNA5JTTK2a3AcjK-iBQ false MM/DD/YYYY 30 OPAQUE aomuBSIqfzhKxWLGPmQv111967

Online: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_25IJNA5JTTK2a3AcjK-iBQ

Jody L Stockdill, joc10@pitt.edu

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