• Reproductive Health Care as a Human Right

  • Aug 8 2022
  • Length: 34 mins
  • Podcast

Reproductive Health Care as a Human Right

  • Summary

  • 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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