What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’?
Social movements’ impact need not be salutatory, as is evident by the success that the anti-vax movement has had during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Public Health Law
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The pandemic showed that community-based supports can foster safety and accountability without requiring state intervention.
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The emerging law of social distancing is vital to the future of public health. And social protests are playing an important role in these developments.
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The pandemic finally shifted the reproductive justice movement’s focus to abortion access, rather than abortion rights.
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We have entered a new stage of erasure of children, of the disabled, and of the vulnerable.
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The federal government has all the power it needs to stop the actions of individual states that put the entire nation at risk.
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Law’s inherent bias towards stability is poorly suited to the challenges of addressing rapidly evolving public health crises.
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Read more: The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums
Even the best pandemic planning cannot account for elected representatives refusing to govern in the name of public health.
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Read more: The COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals the Stakes of the Campaign Against Abortion The COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals the Stakes of the Campaign Against Abortion
The pandemic has revealed the broader stakes of this campaign — and what it might mean for access to care well after the worst of the pandemic is behind us.
