Reproductive Justice

Professor Khiara M. Bridges joins NPR’s It’s Been A Minute to discuss the the case of Adriana Smith’s pregnancy in which after being declared brain dead, a Georgia hospital kept her on life support without her family’s consent because of the state’s abortion laws

“It is not clear what exactly the law prescribes and permits in cases like this,” Khiara M. Bridges, a University of California, Berkeley law professor, told HuffPost. “In an abundance of caution, risk-averse doctors and hospital counsel will do exactly what they did in Smith’s case.”

“We see AGs banding together, governors banding together, as advocates work on the ground,” said Arneta Rogers, executive director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley’s law school. “That feels somewhat more hopeful — that people are thinking about a coordinated strategy.” 

“This view of women and women’s roles is precisely what feminists reacted against in the mid-19th century, and then again in the 1960s and 1970s,” said Professor Khiara M. Bridges.

Professor Rebecca Wexler discusses the intersection between reproductive justice and data privacy.

Arneta Rogers, executive director at the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law School, said Trump paved the way for extreme antiabortion laws that are disproportionately harming people living “on the margins” — including people of color and the young, poor and queer — and should be made to own that legacy, because “the stakes couldn’t be higher.”

“You can avoid the necessity of consulting with a physician or getting a physical examination by a healthcare provider, and you can just order it delivered to your home and so that expands access,” said Khiara M. Bridges, a professor of law at UC Berkeley who studies reproductive rights. 

Arneta Rogers, who previously worked with the ACLU of Northern California, will take the reins of UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice, or CRRJ, just over a year and a half after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court.

Professor Khiara Bridges joins hosts Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay to discuss conservative backlash to a San Francisco maternal health program for Black women.

Professor Khiara M. Bridges discusses a legal challenge to Texas abortion bans.