The California Women’s Law Center is holding a number of panel discussions this year with the UC Irvine Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy and Ms. Magazine addressing women’s health disparities. Moderated by Michele Goodwin, this series focuses on many of the factors contributing to our nation’s health care inequities and the impacts they have on Americans.

For the third event of the series we will have an intimate conversation about the future of reproductive rights in the post-Roe world. As the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization clearly underscored, the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the historic and precedential decision in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and eliminate the constitutional rights to abortion. Join us for an intimate discussion between Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and UCI Law School’s Chancellor’s Professor and author, Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, Michele B. Goodwin. Dean Chemerinsky and Professor Goodwin will examine the current moment in constitutional jurisprudence, survey the broader legal landscape, and forecast the outlook for reproductive rights in a seemingly imminent post-Roe America. These Constitutional scholars will discuss the broader implications a decision to overturn Roe could have on other Supreme Court decisions that rely on it to protect aspects of personal privacy such as contraceptive use, marriage, child custody, consensual sex among adults, and others.

To view a recording of the event, click here.