The Politics of Abortion: Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt and Beyond - Katie Watson
When:
Thursday, March 10, 2016
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Katie Watson, JD
Assistant Professor
Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Northwestern University
The Politics of Abortion: Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt and Beyond
In this lecture, Professor Watson will consider a range of recent expressions of “abortion politics” – from the pending Supreme Court case of Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt, to a pending Congressional investigation of physicians at a private clinic in New Mexico. Then she will step back from the common “controversy du jour” framing of abortion politics to consider how the concept of structural stigma might inform our thinking about the current regulatory climate of abortion care, and the way it’s practiced locally.