May 9 Tuesday, 4:30pm | Oakley Center

As Laurie Bertram Roberts has argued, reproductive justice—”the right to parent, the right not to parent, and the right to parent in healthy and secure communities”— is an absolute human right. Yet this human right has never been distributed equally. What does the struggle for abortion access look like, both before and after Dobbs, when we center the Deep South and examine the deepening challenges to access revealed at the intersections of poverty, disability, gender, race, and sexual orientation? For this year’s Weiss Lecture, Williams’ Dr. Leticia Smith-Evans Haynes ’99 will converse with activist Laurie Bertram Roberts, executive director of the Yellowhammer fund, a reproductive justice organization serving Alabama, Mississippi, and the Deep South.

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