Event Description
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, many feared it meant the end of abortion access in the United States. Yet the dedicated work of people on the ground has allowed abortion to survive post-Dobbs in ways that no one predicted. In After Dobbs, law professor David S. Cohen and sociologist Carole Joffe interview 24 people across all different fields in abortion and in different state political environments to uncover how the abortion providing community and its allies prepared for, and then responded to, changes in the law.
Join us to hear from the authors about what their interviews tell us about abortion provision in the aftermath of Dobbs and how the abortion access landscape in the U.S. may continue to change.
Speakers
David S. Cohen
David S. Cohen is a Professor of Law at Drexel’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law. His scholarship explores the intersection of constitutional law and gender, emphasizing how the law impacts abortion provision, including violence against abortion providers, as well as sex segregation and masculinity. He also researches voting anomalies in the Supreme Court. In the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, Professor Cohen has been one of the leading national experts on abortion.
Cohen’s first book, Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism, was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press and co-authored with Krysten Connon, a 2012 graduate of Drexel Kline Law. Cohen’s second book, Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America, was published in 2020 by California University Press and written with Carole Joffe.
Carole Joffe, PhD
Carole Joffe is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and at ANSIRH (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health) at the University of California San Francisco. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of reproductive health, with a particular interest in abortion provision.
Joffe’s previous publications include Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America (University of California Press) with David Cohen; Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings (Routledge Press), co-edited with Jennifer Reich; Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us (Beacon Press); Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and after Roe v. Wade (Beacon Press); and The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (Temple University Press). Besides writing for an academic audience, she also writes frequently for the general public on the topics of reproductive health and reproductive politics, and has published op-eds, blog posts, and letters in such venues as the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Hill, and Rewire.
Elizabeth Kukura (Moderator)
Elizabeth Kukura is an Associate Professor of Law at Drexel’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law, where her research focuses on the intersection of gender and health law, with a particular focus on reproductive health and the law and politics of childbirth. Her scholarship examines laws and policies that impact healthcare decision-making and the role of race, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping health care access, experiences, and outcomes. Her scholarship on the maternal health crisis has examined the legal status of midwives in the United States, coerced interventions and other forms of mistreatment by perinatal care providers, and the impact of Dobbs on maternal and reproductive health care.
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