A Virtual Townhall Discussion for Students

• View the conversation @PetrieFlom using #AbortionTownhall.
• View the fully captioned event video.

Event Description

The future of abortion access in America is not secure, as recent developments have shown. In September, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to enjoin Texas’ SB8, allowing a sweeping abortion ban to go into effect. Later this fall, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case which threatens to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The Petrie-Flom Center hosted a townhall discussion of these ongoing issues. Panelists included noted historian of abortion Mary Ziegler, obstetrician/gynecologist and director of reproductive bioethics at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics, Louise Perkins King, and faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, I. Glenn Cohen, in conversation with Carmel Shachar, Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center.

Panelists

• Introduction and Moderator: Katherine L. Kraschel, Lecturer in Law, Clinical Lecturer in Law, Research Scholar in Law, and Executive Director of the Solomon Center, Yale Law School

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Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.