Roe v. Wade at 50: Past and Prologue

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Roe v. Wade at 50:
Past and Prologue

Join us for a conversation about history, law, and abortion activism on Friday, March 17th at 4pm. 

January 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion in the United States. This anniversary now has peculiar resonance as the Dobbs decision last summer overturned the prior decision. Abortion debates invoke history in many ways. Please join us for a conversation about the connections among history, medicine, law, and activism around abortion. What can history suggest about our present moment? And how might our moment shape the various histories of abortion now being written?

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Join us for a conversation about history, law, and abortion activism on Friday, March 17th at 4pm. Click here to attend.

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moderated by

Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Johns Hopkins University

 

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Leslie Reagan, PhD
Professor of History
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

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Joanne Rosen, JD, MA
Senior Lecturer
JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Jennifer Villavicencio, MD, MPP
OBGYN & Abortion Caregiver
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Event Poster

Event flyer titled “Roe v. Wade at 50: Past and Prologue” with a photo of a women’s march crowd holding signs in the top-right. Text invites a conversation about history, law, and abortion activism on March 17th at 4 pm, with a QR code and link to hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/roevwadeat50. Speaker lineup with headshots: Leslie Reagan, PhD (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Joanne Rosen, JD, MA (JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health); Jennifer Villavicencio, MD, MPP (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists). Moderator: Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins University). Photo credit notes the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2017.