Berkeley Talks: Threats to abortion rights and how people are resisting
A panel of scholars discuss how race, class and reproductive rights intersect and how people are choosing self-directed care to circumnavigate the structural inequalities in health care access
November 21, 2020
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A person holds a sign at a rally to stop abortion bans in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia Commons)
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In this episode of Berkeley Talks, a panel of scholars — Berkeley Law professor Khiara Bridges; Carole Joffe, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UC San Francisco; and Jill Adams, executive director of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice — discuss how race, class and reproductive rights intersect and how people are choosing and resorting to self-directed and community-directed care to circumnavigate the structural inequalities in health care access.
From left: Carole Joffe, Khiara Bridges and Jill Adams (UC Berkeley photo)
The Sept. 30, 2020, discussion was sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies and co-sponsored by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, the Center for the Study of Law and Society and Berkeley Law’s chapter of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice.
Listen to the full discussion in Berkeley Talks episode #101: “Threats to abortion rights and how people are resisting.”