From privacy to prohibition: US abortion policy, devolved
Four global models of abortion regulation include the model of “privacy”, of which the United States was a prime example until a recent Supreme Court decision declared that there is no constitutional right to obtain a medically safe abortion.

Moral decisions such as whether an individual is entitled to terminate a pregnancy, the court declared, should be made by elected state policymakers, not the Supreme Court.

This lecture explains why the ‘devolution’ of reproductive rights is bad national constitutional law, bad politics, and, for the millions of women unable to travel distances and out of state for medical care, bad public health. So what now?

This event will be moderated by Professor Ngaire Woods.
Date: 27 October 2022, 17:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Blavatnik School of Government and Zoom
Speakers: Professor Anita L. Allen, JD., PhD (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
Organising department: Blavatnik School of Government
Organiser contact email address: events@bsg.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/privacy-prohibition-us-abortion-policy-devolved
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Freya Paulucci Couldrick