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
• I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center; James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law; and Deputy Dean, Harvard Law School
• Louise Perkins King, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biolog, Harvard Medical School and Surgeon, Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s
• Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor, Florida State University College of Law

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.