Reproductive health care is a human right. Learn how this connects to health equity and explore the impacts of the overturn of Roe v. Wade with a panel of experts.
Panel:
- Lawrence Gostin, JD—Professor, Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Director, WHO Center on Global Health Law
- Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH—President and CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health
- Krishna Upadhya, MD, MPH—Vice President, Quality Care and Health Equity, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Introduction
- Introduction of the panelists
- Policing and criminalization of reproductive health care
- Abortion access and inequities in health care
- The end of Roe v Wade and a new legal frontier for abortion rights
- The impact of the overturning of Roe and access to abortions
- Substandard medical care being mandated by states
- How the legal system can provide rights & access to health services
- Abortion, reproductive justice, & human rights
- Finding hope in health care justice work
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