Reproductive Justice Conference Post Dobbs: It's Not Just Abortion

2023 The Baldy Center Grant Proposal: Reproductive Justice and Health Equities Post-Dobbs: a Legal, Medical, Community Dialogue.

Grant Proposal Abstract: This interdisciplinary conference will explore the multiple legal, medical, societal and political upheavals caused by the reversal of Roe v Wade in the recent Dobbs decision. These upheavals highlight the need for increased interdisciplinary dialogue, education, research and advocacy between people working in law, medicine, public health, social work, and those in the community trying to navigate the challenges of seeking or providing the broad range of services that people need to have safe and healthy reproductive and family lives. The particularly disparate impacts of Dobbs' upheavals on women of color, poor women, immigrant women, rural women, and women who are not yet independent adults, have increased the urgency of expanding the framework through which the legal and medical challenges are understood and addressed, moving from the traditional notions of "reproductive rights" or "reproductive health care," to that of "reproductive justice."

The conference is sponsored, in part, by: The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy,  the School of Law, the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and, the WNY Coalition for Reproductive Justice.