The Politics of Reproduction presents Professor Adrienne Davis: "Sexual Political Economies of Slavery and Abortion Access"
Adrienne Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law; Founder & Co-director of the Law & Culture Initiative; Professor of Organizational Behavior and Leadership, Olin Business School
Legal scholars have noted that the closest precedents to many of the new state laws that will govern abortion access and information are the set of laws that regulated speech and travel under slavery in the antebellum United States. This session will consider overlaps and distinctions, focusing on what this precedent means in today’s context and what it means for our legal institutions and lives today.
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Department of Women,Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Global Studies, Arts & Sciences
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