Upcoming Events

• October 21, 2024

  Amanda Heffernan: “Una mujer embarazada necesita el sol”: Pregnant Migrant Women’s Encounter with Immigration Enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico Border

  Amanda Heffernan, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Seattle University, will argue that, based on her study of the impact of pregnancy-related immigration policies on the lived experiences of pregnant migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border from 2017-2022, pregnant women are negatively impacted under a wide range of, and even disparate, policy regimes.
• November 4, 2024

  Wendy Bach: “Pregnancy as a Crime: A Preliminary Report on the First Year After Dobbs”

  Wendy Bach, Professor of Law at University of Tennessee College of Law, will present the preliminary findings of a national research study tracking prosecutions for pregnancy-related conduct in the first year after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, contextualizing them within larger conversations about pregnancy criminalization.
• November 18, 2024

  Cary Franklin: “Clearing the Way for Comstock: Dismantling Fifty Years of Sex-Based Equal Protection Law”

  Cary Franklin, Mcdonald/Wright Chair of Law at UCLA School of Law, will discuss how Dobbs unleashed a tidal wave of old and new laws criminalizing abortion, including the Comstock Act of 1873, reviving a criminalization regime Roe had held in abeyance. Professor Franklin’s talk will explore the constitutionality of these regulations that were created at a time when women and people of color were not viewed as equal members of the polity.

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