Carole Joffe is a professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco,  and a professor of sociology emerita at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of reproductive health, with a particular interest in abortion provision. Besides writing for an academic audience, she also frequently writes op-eds and other pieces for the general public.  Her most recent book (with David S. Cohen) is Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to get an Abortion in America, published by the University of California Press.). Her current research addresses the responses of abortion providers to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

America without Roe

            This talk will discuss my ongoing research on some of the implications of the Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in June,  2022, which overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which found a constitutional right to abortion. I will discuss the responses of the medical profession, focusing on the abortion providing community, as well as the field of obstetrics and gynecology more generally. I will argue that this decision has had unintended results that go beyond abortion access and poses a threat to public health in a variety of ways. 
 

REGISTER HERE