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ROE V. WADE AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
Virtual meeting: 29 September 2022 - 17:00 – 19:00 BST
Monday 12 September 2022, by
Source: Feminist Dissent , Sept 7, 2022
Please join us for a virtual public meeting to discuss the global ramifications for reproductive justice in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v Wade.
Date and time: Thu, 29 September 2022
17:00 – 19:00 BST
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About this event
Feminist Dissent invites you to attend a virtual public meeting on ROE V. WADE AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT.
Continuing our work on fundamentalist politics in secular states, we look at the overturning of Roe v Wade, and anti-abortion terrorism as a case study in fundamentalist (in this case the Christian right), state, and judicial capture in the US.
We ask what kinds of mobilisation are needed to oppose legislation seeking to ban abortion and whether there is a contemporary feminist movement which is willing to engage in grass roots activism to support women and girls to access abortion and protect abortion providers under attack from right wing terror in the US.
In Latin America, by contrast, the power of the Vatican and the Catholic right has been challenged by far -reaching reforms of abortion law and changes in practice by medical professionals and feminist advocates even in conditions where abortion was illegal.
We look at what these movements can learn from each other.
Speakers:
ANA CRISTINA GONZáLEZ VéLEZ ( Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad de los Andes; founder of the group for The Right to Decide in Colombia, co-founder of La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres, and pioneer of Causa Justa movement in Colombia)
ROSALIND PETCHESKY (Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York; founder of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group)
KATHA POLLITT (journalist, essayist and critic; columnist for The Nation; author of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, New York Times Notable Book )
GITA SAHGAL (writer, film-maker and feminist/human rights advocate; former head of the Gender Unit at Amnesty International; editorial collective member of Feminist Dissent)
The event is free but please do register on the Eventbrite.
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