After the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many U.S. states enacted abortion bans. This changed legal landscape exposes crucial ethical questions about pregnancy in childhood.

Dr. Kimberley Brownlee, Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy in UBC, analyses a previously unnamed type of social injustice – girlism – to make sense of the kinds of mistreatment girls endure in the context of pregnancy and abortion, where their status as girls is obscured under this ‘women’s issue’.