The Week in Health Law
The Week in Health Law
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102. Politicizing Pregnancy and Punishing Women. Guest, Michele Goodwin.
36 minutes Posted Jun 27, 2017 at 4:26 pm.
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University of California law professor Michelle Goodwin joins us for a detailed discussion about the increasingly adverse relationship between women and the state. Increasingly, pregnancy is being policed by an array of oppressive state laws, many of which are being used in contexts far removed from their legislative intent. Our conversation includes a detailed look at the abortion cases and their limitations. We end with a disturbing narrative about under age marriages in the U.S., often in circumstances that otherwise would be statutory rape.