Events Calendar
Implications of Mandatory Ultrasound Laws
- Date:
- November 10, 2011
- Start:
- 3:30pm
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- Location:
- TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)
- Event type:
- Panel Discussion / Speaker Series
- For more info:
- email AmbrosiaOrtiz@gmail.com
This summer, Governor Rick Perry signed into law a mandatory ultrasound bill. Not long after, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit to stop the law in its tracks. What happens now?
Join us and learn more about the case, Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey, and hear from a leading scholars about what is behind these mandatory ultrasound laws:
Implications of Mandatory Ultrasound Laws November 10, 2011 at 3:30pm, TNH 2.140
This event will feature a presentation by award-winning Professor Carol Sanger of Columbia Law School. She will lead a conversation about what's at stake with mandatory ultrasound laws for women seeking abortions, and address the concept of "visualization of the fetus."
Responding will be: TX State Representative Donna Howard, Blake Rocap, NARAL Lobbyist, and UT Professor Gretchen Ritter, Vice Provost and Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.
The event will be followed by a reception at UT’s George’s Café where you will have the opportunity to meet and talk with our presenters more informally. This event is open to the public and we encourage you to forward this invitation to any students, professors, or advocates you think would be interested in attending.
- Specific audiences:
- Texas Law students
- Prospective students
- Texas Law alumni
- Faculty
- Staff
- General public
If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the sponsor listed above or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.