Valeria Gomez (University of Baltimore School of Law), “The New Abortion Borders for Immigrant Women” 

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. This talk will examine the profound implications of this arrangement for noncitizen women, whose rights and mobility are already constrained by federal immigration laws and policies. It will argue that the intersection of state-level abortion restrictions and federal immigration enforcement creates de facto internal borders, uniquely curtailing the reproductive freedoms of noncitizens. 

Learn more about the speaker, Valeria Gomez, by visiting her faculty bio.

*This event is part of the speaker series, “Reproductive Justice, Criminal Law, and the Carceral State,” which considers the criminalization of reproduction—historical and contemporary, local and global—largely through the lens of reproductive justice.

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