12:45 pm - 2:00 pm - Roundtable Discussion: Dimensions of the Post-Dobbs Environment.
This roundtable will be a conversation among reproductive justice advocates, organizations, researchers, and legal scholars about a range of challenges to and strategies for securing health justice and reproductive justice post-Dobbs. Topics will include maternal mortality, access to prenatal care, contraception, the role of conscience and religious liberty objections to reproductive health care.
Facilitator: Aziza Ahmed, BU School of Law
Panelists:
Judy Norsigian, Our Bodies Ourselves Today
Diana Namumbejja Abwoye, Lowell Community Health Center
Kimberly Mutcherson, Dean, Rutgers Law
Nashira Baril, Neighborhood Birth Center
Maya Manian, American University Washington College of Law
Elizabeth Sepper, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Renee Landers, MA Planned Parenthood, Suffolk Law
For more about the conference, see below.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of exploring the legacy and future of Roe v. Wade in the wake of the Supreme Court’s watershed decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The constitutional, political, and policy landscape is changing by the day, with major implications for law, medicine, and public health. This symposium marks what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe and will evaluate various dimensions of reproductive justice as it existed until Dobbs and into the next 50 years. The symposium has a multidisciplinary approach, which will include attention to law, history, social movements, health equity, and reproductive health and justice, including the critical role of advocates in Boston and the Northeast region. A related issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics will be coedited by Professors Aziza Ahmed, Nicole Huberfeld, and Linda McClain, to be published in the fall of 2023.
This symposium will occur Thursday, January 26, 2023 at BU School of Law and is cosponsored by BU Law and BU School of Public Health, and is part of BU Law’s commemoration of its 150th anniversary (For those interested in coming to Boston, our timing coincides with “The Age of Roe” conference at Harvard Radcliffe on Friday, January 27th.)
We will offer this symposium in person, and virtually. Please register for zoom information.
This symposium is an inaugural event for BU Law’s new program in reproductive justice, which will launch officially in fall 2023.
For questions about registration, please contact Elizabeth Clancey at mackelle@bu.edu. For questions about the conference or JLME, please contact Professors Aziza Ahmed, Nicole Huberfeld, or Linda McClain.