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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