Event

From privacy to prohibition: US abortion policy, devolved

Date
27 Oct 2022
Time
17:30 UK time
Speakers
Professor Anita L. Allen, JD., PhD
Professor Ngaire Woods
Where
Blavatnik School of Government, Blavatnik School of Government and Zoom, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Organiser contact
Audience
Public
Cost
Free
Booking
Required
Four global models of abortion regulation include the model of “privacy”, of which the United States was a prime example until a recent Supreme Court decision declared that there is no constitutional right to obtain a medically safe abortion.

Moral decisions such as whether an individual is entitled to terminate a pregnancy, the court declared, should be made by elected state policymakers, not the Supreme Court.

This lecture explains why the 'devolution' of reproductive rights is bad national constitutional law, bad politics, and, for the millions of women unable to travel distances and out of state for medical care, bad public health. So what now?

This event will be moderated by Professor Ngaire Woods.