Event

My body, my choice: exploring the limits of consent

Date
19 Jan 2024
Time
15:00 UK time
Speakers
Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon)
Where
Littlegate House, Oxford Uehiro Centre, Suite 1, 16-17 St Ebbe's Street OX1 1PT
Series
Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
Audience
Members of the University only
Cost
Free
Booking
Not required
From birth to death, from late-term abortion on the basis of the disability of the foetus, to choices about puberty blockers to the demand to legalise assistance with dying, our bodies have become legal battle-grounds. How far are we entitled to assert that it is simply a matter of our choice – and who gets to decide when and how we have the right to make that choice?