America & the States of Abortion: Abortion & Law

The US Supreme Court's recent reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022 has focused attention to abortion access in America. While the public is aware of the role of advocacy organizations and media outlets in this national conversation, they are perhaps less familiar with how current scholarship tackles abortion's complexities. This series of panel discussions gathers scholars from different disciplines at UC Davis to discuss abortions from multiple perspectives and enable the audience's understanding of how religions, ethics, politics, law, and science view abortion.
The Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision which overturned Roe v. Wade is well-known. But the details of exactly how the law changed and its relationship to society are not. In this panel discussion, experts in the field of law discuss the history of abortion, Dobbs’ effects on state powers, privacy, its impact on health equity, and the future legal efforts to ban abortion nationwide.
Speakers:
Katherine Florey, UC Davis School of Law
Lisa Ikemoto, UC Davis School of Law
Rebecca Kluchin, Sacramento State University
Aaron Tang, UC Davis School of Law
Sponsored by:
UC Davis Humanities Institute
UC Davis College of Letters and Science
UC Davis Department of Religious Studies
UC Davis Department of Human Rights
UC Davis Global Affairs
UC Davis Department of Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies
UC Davis Department of Cultural Studies