Reproductive Health Care as a Human Right | Prioritizing Equity

Reproductive health care is a human right. Learn how this connects to health equity and explore the impacts of the overturn of Roe v. Wade with a panel of experts.

Panel: 
• Lawrence Gostin, JD—Professor, Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Director, WHO Center on Global Health Law
• Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH—President and CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health
• Krishna Upadhya, MD, MPH—Vice President, Quality Care and Health Equity, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

00:00 Introduction 
01:13 Introduction of the panelists 
05:50 Policing and criminalization of reproductive health care 
09:06 Abortion access and inequities in health care 
14:40 The end of Roe v Wade and a new legal frontier for abortion rights 
18:37 The impact of the overturning of Roe and access to abortions 
21:32 Substandard medical care being mandated by states 
23:40 How the legal system can provide rights & access to health services 
26:53 Abortion, reproductive justice, & human rights 
29:50 Finding hope in health care justice work

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