The June 24, 2022 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson overthrew Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion. In the wake of the Dobbs decision, the Pembroke Center hosts a panel of advocates, activists, and scholars that considers reproductive justice after Roe v. Wade. Panelists will discuss the history of Roe v. Wade and its legal arguments, the ramifications of Dobbs v. Jackson, and the relationship between access to abortion and other human and reproductive rights.

Additional topics to be explored might include the role of racism and anti-immigrant sentiment in anti-abortion movements, the disproportionately negative impact that restrictions on abortion and reproductive care have on women of color and other marginalized women, and agendas for reproductive justice and women’s health now. Panelists will share statements of approximately 20-minutes each, and a Q&A session will follow.

Panelists:

Marcela Howell, founder and president of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda

Lisa Ikemoto, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law and member of the faculty advisory board for the Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis

Nancy J. Northup ’81 LHD’18 hon., P’16, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights

Moderator:

This event will be livestreamed and recorded.