Joint Grand Rounds with UCSF Bioethics and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences featured Professor Michele Brachter Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Goodwin traced the history of abortion and reproductive rights in America and drew a line from Civil War era America, the founding of the field of obstetrics and gynecology, and eugenic and anti-immigration laws of the early 19th century to Roe v Wade and the current challenges to reproductive rights in front of the Supreme Court. She emphasized the historic and contemporary interconnections of race, gender, and power and shared her concerns about the future of reproductive rights with the real possibility of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. Professor Goodwin presented reproductive rights as a continually contested space in American history and left the audience with ideas for action and resistance when reproductive rights are threatened.
A recording of Grand Rounds is available to watch here.
