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Reproductive Rights and Justice

Reproductive Rights and Justice - Professor Kimberly McCullough

Course Number: LAW-574
Course Type: Highly Specialized
Credits: 2
Enrollment Limit: Determined by the Registrar
Description: This seminar will provide foundational instruction in the concepts of reproductive rights and reproductive justice, and will then consider reproductive rights and justice within a historical and evolving legal context. We will use an intersectional lens to explore the evolution of constitutional and statutory rights related to pregnancy and the capacity for pregnancy. We will delve into the legal struggles and related social justice movement(s) as they have evolved in the U.S. from the 1960s to the present. Topics will include pregnancy and employment rights; birth rights; abortion; coerced sterilization and eugenics; coerced and forced medical treatment; criminalization of pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes; substance use and pregnancy; reproductive rights and justice in incarceration settings; and the landscape of state-level responses to the Dobbs decision.
Prerequisite: none
Evaluation Method: Class participation and assignments
Capstone: no
WIE: no

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