From privacy to prohibition: US abortion policy, devolved

Name: From privacy to prohibition: US abortion policy, devolved
Start: 2022-10-27
End: 2022-10-27
Location: Blavatnik School of Government

Speaker(s):

Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University.

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Event date:

27 October 2022

Event time:

17:30 - 18:30

Oxford week:

MT 3

Audience:

Faculty Members

Postgraduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Venue:

Blavatnik School of Government

Registration:

Organised by:

Blavatnik School of Government

Who to contact:

Blavatnik School of Government

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A lecture on the 'devolution' of reproductive rights in the US and the implications for constitutional law, politics and public health.

Four global models of abortion regulation include the model of “privacy”, of which the United States was a prime example until a recent Supreme Court decision declared that there is no constitutional right to obtain a medically safe abortion.

Moral decisions such as whether an individual is entitled to terminate a pregnancy, the court declared, should be made by elected state policymakers, not the Supreme Court.

This lecture explains why the 'devolution' of reproductive rights is bad national constitutional law, bad politics, and, for the millions of women unable to travel distances and out of state for medical care, bad public health. So what now?

This event will be moderated by Professor Ngaire Woods.

Theme:

Medical Law and Ethics