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Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 22, 2022
Roberts, a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the Periclean Scholars Guest Lecture on Thursday evening in Whitley Auditorium.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court made a landmark decision with its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, overturning reproductive freedom that had been granted with the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
Despite how devasting the decision has been for human rights, Dorothy Roberts, Periclean Scholars Guest Lecturer, raises the question: did we have true reproductive freedom in America before the Dobbs decision?
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