Reproducing Law Otherwise? (Online)

QM School of Law

Reproducing Law Otherwise? (Online) Roundtable reflections on new directions in abortion law and reproductive justice

D﻿ate and time: Monday, 22 May at 12pm - 2pmF﻿ormat: OnlineRoundtable One at 12-2pm (Online) to include Barbara Baird, Catherine Conlon, Erica Millar, Kate Antosik-Parsons, Maeve Taylor, Paola Bergallo, Ruth Fletcher Roundtable Two at 6-8pm (in-person) to include Caoilfhionn Gallagher, Emma Campbell, Máiréad Enright, Sabrina Germain, Sandra Duffy (<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reproducing-law-otherwise-hybrid-tickets-627006903527" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Register here</a>)The overturning of Roe v Wade’s constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs has shown how fragile legal protections for pregnant people can be. Nonetheless Argentina, Australia and Ireland (north and south) are among the countries pushing back against the reproductive injustice of disrespecting pregnant knowledge of life and removing legal barriers to abortion. Over 50 years of abortion’s public health provision in Britain has generated unequal terrain for abortion seekers as criminalisation continues to hang over those least able to access abortion and medical decision-making authority remains in place. In these circumstances it seems important to challenge ‘new’ calls to ‘protect foetal life’ after #Dobbs and to demand instead respect for the creative work of reproductive life. Growing embryos and foetuses into children is intimate body-work, work which needs to be supported, and sometimes withdrawn. There is much to be learned from the different ways that lawyers, law students and everyday legal workers have engaged with this uneven global terrain in supporting women, girls and pregnant people in the struggle to make themselves free. From streets to parliaments, kitchens to courts, abortion-seekers, advocates and activists have generated new visual and verbal knowledges for representing the everyday creative work of making legal space for reproductive life, including by becoming unpregnant. These roundtables seek to share and expand that space by talking about how public legal education - including university classrooms, law clinics, social justice lawyering, and community organising - could best respond to the challenges and creativities of our reproductive times. Questions for roundtable participants1. How do legal struggles over abortion involve commitments to justice for all reproducers, particularly those made more marginal and vulnerable by law? [35 mins]2. What does the failure of law to support abortion access positively (and the relative success of abortion funds, providers and support networks) tell us about the limits of law and legal action? [35 mins] 3. Where do you see the struggle for reprojustice in abortion law, and more generally, going in future? [35 mins]In this month of May, and on the fifth anniversary of #Repealedthe8th, we pay tribute to all the reproductive workers around the world and to all the creative and committed activity that seeks to reproduce law otherwise. We reflect on support for all those whose everyday reproductive actions, including becoming unpregnant, make the world live! Organisers: Ruth Fletcher, Leverhulme Research Fellow, QMUL Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context; Catherine Conlon, Reproductive Citizenship Project, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin; Matt Evans and Gbemisola Obolo, QMUL Legal Advice Centre. *﻿*Please note joining details will be sent the day before the event

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