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Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has been to secure recognition of fetuses and embryos as persons under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a step that the modern antiabortion movement argues would make liberal abortion laws unconstitutional.
02 December 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This event is taking place online via Zoom.
Mike Leigh’s film depicts access to abortion in postwar London. This is the hypocrisy of England before the Abortion Act, where safe abortion is available if you can afford it and less safe abortion is available if you know who to ask. Discussant: Dr Mary Neal.
29 January 2025
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Hogan Lovells
CELLS seminar: The decriminalisation of euthanasia in Colombia - is it all about dignified death? Abstract: From the mid-20th century, there has been a growing outcry against the dehumanisation of death resulting from the excessive use of technology and medical paternalism.
24 February 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
This event is taking place online, via Zoom.
‘Reimagining the Court of Protection: Participation, Mediation and Best Interests Disputes’.
12 March 2025
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