The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Katie Watson, JD
Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Medical Education, and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Faculty, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program
Member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Reproductive Justice and the Ethics of Access
Justice is the fourth principle in the dominant mode of medical ethics analysis (principlism) yet in practice it is often treated as an afterthought, and in the 1970s the feminists who developed the “reproductive freedom” framework for contraception and abortion rights were similarly focused on individual autonomy. However, in the 1990s women of color offered an alternate conceptual framework: “reproductive justice” (RJ). Professor Watson will analyze how beginning with justice and centering marginalized populations changes the analysis of reproductive rights and ethics, explore the link between RJ and issues like unjust policing in communities of color, and consider what the entire field of bioethics could learn from the RJ movement.
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