Lisa Harris, MD, PhD
F. Wallace and Janet Jeffries Collegiate Professor of Reproductive
Health, and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies
University of Michigan
Dr. Harris will engage in a continued discussion of issues presented in her March 21 lecture: "Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe."
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Information about her lecture:
March 21, 2023, 7:15 – 8:15 am
"Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe"
Abstract: Dr. Harris will discuss how abortion bans now mean that anyone who becomes pregnant will be vulnerable to increased surveillance, civil detentions, forced interventions, and criminal prosecutions. Dr. Harris will discuss that the central holding in Roe indicated that pregnant women retained their Constitutional rights throughout pregnancy. Roe, and Casey, which followed, acknowledged that the State has a legitimate interest in potential human life, but that it could never be advanced in ways that deprived pregnant women of liberty, or jeopardized their life or health. As Dr. Harris will explore, with Roe and Casey now overturned, there are currently no Constitutionally-defined limits on how a state can advance its interest in fetal life or protection. She will center the intersection of abortion bans with other systems of oppression, including racism and economic inequity.
Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services Ethics Grand Rounds, co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics & Health Law
Location and Address
Online