Plenary Session: “Evaporating Abortion Rights – Expanding Reproductive Freedom” with Michele Goodwin (Univ. of CA, Irvine), Julie F. Kay (Author and Human Rights Attorney), Erinn Martin (National Women’s Law Center) and Rosann Mariappuram (Janes Due Process).

The Supreme Court has been eroding meaningful abortion access for years, upholding Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws and other abortion restrictions that disproportionately impact marginalized pregnant people. Now the Court is poised to explicitly or de facto overturn Roe v. Wade and nearly 50 years of precedent recognizing the constitutional right to abortion. If this happens, according to the Guttmacher Institute, “26 states are certain or likely to ban abortion.” In a post-Roe America, how do we expand reproductive freedom in a way that creates meaningful rights and access for marginalized people in all 50 states? What can the experience of legalizing abortion in other countries tell us about potential next steps in the United States?