Upcoming Fall 2026: Reproductive Justice, Criminal Law, and the Carceral State Events

This speaker series uses a reproductive justice lens to consider the criminalization of reproduction, broadly understood—historical and contemporary, local and global.

  1. Time: 4PM
    Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Texas has been home to one of the harshest criminal abortion bans in the country.

  2. Time: 4PM
    In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the United States possesses a fragmented patchwork of state laws imposing varying degrees of restrictions on and penalties for abortion.

  3. Time: 4PM
    Faulty forensic evidence and biased evidence relying on sex-based stereotypes have long been used to convict innocent women in situations where an accident or health event has been misconstrued as a criminal act.

  4. Time: 4PM
    Using the example of post-Dobbs abortion bans that contain no exceptions for incest or rape, this talk will argue that law and institutions charged with protecting the vulnerable are often responsible for the oppression of women, the suppression of their capacities, and the harms that follow.

  5. Time: 4PM
    Healthcare conscientious objection allows providers to refuse treatment based on moral or religious beliefs. Alongside the legalization of abortion since the 1970s,  conscience clauses have expanded globally. 

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