#reproethicsconf2021 keynote @DorothyERoberts
It is absolutely realistic to predict that women will be prosecuted and imprisoned for having abortions. It has!!
Harmful policies, happening in the US today, we need collective movements to support reproductive rights.
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Policies based on harmful ideologies that aim to “solve social problems”...targeting “at-risk” meaning Black, Latinx, poor communities
—-gotta listen to FULL presentation to gain understanding—— @DorothyERoberts
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In the US, the family policing system is not intended to gain insights for solutions to help families but causes further harm bc of our punitive system @DorothyERoberts
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Think of #gene editing and science development aims to benefit the privileged, create the “perfect baby,” will not be inclusive of people of color. @DorothyERoberts
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Reproductive Justice includes centering exp & leadership of BILPOC, access to choice, inclusion, abolitionist movements to imagine a new world that cares, supports ppl. Punitive systems disenfranchise and harms ppl @DorothyERoberts
6/ #reproethicsconf2021 @DorothyERoberts a long standing connection between white liberal movements focused on climate change, advocacy to decrease growth of pop’s. The premise often looks at the LEAST privileged globally while industrialized nations like US are WORST offenders
7/ #reproethicsconf2021 We know there is an ordinarily high right of c-section in US compared to other countries, Black women are not listened to, WHO get’s to control this pregnancy? @DorothyERoberts bc of long standing ideas of sexism, ableism, racism.
8/ #reproethicsconf2021 how can the person carrying the fetus have less decision power than the person outside of that fetus? #reproductivejustice means listening to #women, think about clinical algorithms that code for VBAC differently dependent on race. Faulty studies, coding
9/ #reproethicsconf2021 it is important that biomedical research to work on issues of race based medicine. Checkout @DorothyERoberts Ted Talk on this topic
Kudos to the speakers, incredible content and overview to help us understand our experiences, old memory networks and physiological response, and brain shifts.
3/ @docdanmd speaking now about the global pandemic r/t #COVID19 and how we are experiencing a sense of global trauma. So many losses like those of life, jobs, connection, experiences and it’s a shared experience regardless of geography as a shared exp.