Gender-Affirming Care, Abortion, and the Politics of Science: A Response to Wuest’s ‘Born this Way’
Wuest highlights the contingency of scientific claims not only in LGBTQ+ advocacy but also in legal advocacy for and against abortion access.
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Scientific uncertainty does not mean that parents, judges, and legislators lack the information they need to serve the best interests of children.
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Read more: Biological Determinism, Scientific Uncertainty, and Reproductive Rights Biological Determinism, Scientific Uncertainty, and Reproductive Rights
As often as scientific evidence has advanced reproductive rights, abortion foes have used claims about scientific uncertainty to justify new restrictions.
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Read more: “Born This Way,” LGBTQ+ Rights, and the Politics of Uncertainty “Born This Way,” LGBTQ+ Rights, and the Politics of Uncertainty
This symposium reveals uncertainty’s relevance to abortion access, the legality of gender-affirming care, intersex rights, and child custody disputes.
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Read more: Introduction to the Symposium: Reproductive Technologies and Workplace Equality Introduction to the Symposium: Reproductive Technologies and Workplace Equality
In this symposium, experts discuss successes and challenges for labor laws in the face of changing concepts of reproduction, pregnancy, and family building.
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Read more: Running Cover for Death: Pandemic Minimizers Normalize an Inhumane Baseline Running Cover for Death: Pandemic Minimizers Normalize an Inhumane Baseline
We should resist the temptation to justify the present level of death as better than some counterfactual.
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Read more: A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers
The law surrounding reasonable modifications in health care is well-settled, but practical realities pose challenges to securing accommodations.
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Read more: Learning from the ‘COVID War’ Learning from the ‘COVID War’
Preventing pandemic destruction is not just a question of “how to.” It is a question of organizing power from below.
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Read more: The Irony of Pro-life Efforts to Grant Embryos Legal Personhood The Irony of Pro-life Efforts to Grant Embryos Legal Personhood
Treating embryos more like persons will ultimately result in fewer people born and fewer families formed.
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Read more: The Impact of Criminal Abortion Bans on Assisted Reproduction in the Post-Dobbs Landscape The Impact of Criminal Abortion Bans on Assisted Reproduction in the Post-Dobbs Landscape
Abortion bans have made all reproductive health care less safe, and new pregnancy-related dangers may disproportionately impact assisted reproduction.
