After Dobbs: Reproductive Freedom, Justice, and the Power of the State | a conversation featuring Michele Goodwin, Dorothy Roberts, Mary Ziegler, and Geoffrey Stone
Glen A. Lloyd Auditorium
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
1111 E 60th St
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
After Dobbs: Reproductive Freedom, Justice, and the Power of the State
The 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization raises critical questions about the future of a constitutional right to abortion and the state’s power over life and death. Whose reproductive capacity and sexual behavior are targeted for punishment? How is the enforcement of reproductive servitude connected with idealized conceptions of femininity or maternity? How is the family policing system connected to forced maternity? How has the idea of punishment itself been transformed and justified through its specific exercise on women, specifically poor and minority women? How might locating the idea of reproductive servitude in struggles over the abolition of slavery reframe our thinking about forced pregnancy today?
Professors Michele Goodwin (Law. University of California, Irvine), Dorothy Roberts (Law and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania), and Mary Ziegler (Law, University of California, Davis) will be in conversation with Geoffrey Stone (Law, University of Chicago) to discuss their contributions to Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion, ed. Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).
Free and open to the public. RSVP requested, but not required to attend.
This event will be held in the Glen A. Lloyd Auditorium at the University of Chicago Law School (1111 E 60th St).
If you need assistance to attend, please contact tbrazas@uchicago.edu.
Presented by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the University of Chicago Law School. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.