LAW546

Letter Grading

GPA LECTURE COURSES

The relationship between law and reproduction in the United States has been inextricably and persistently embedded in systemic power relations, particularly based on gender, race, and political economy. This course interrogates the regulation and legal conceptions of reproduction utilizing critical race, disability justice, and feminist theoretical frameworks. Areas of interest include, but not are limited to: pre- and post-natal healthcare, reproductive technologies, privacy and embodiment, sterilization and population control in the U.S. & in the U.S. colonized territories, abortion policy and rhetoric, reproduction and carceral systems (including immigration detention), pregnancy discrimination, family and medical leave, repro-genetics & race-based medicine, motherhood and welfare systems, sex education, sexual autonomy & decision-making in disability caregiving relationships, sexual violence & exploitation, environmental racism, and non-consensual medical experimentation. The course engages three foundational questions: 1) How do contemporary and past legal systems in the United States imagine or frame reproductive policy questions? 2) When employing a "reproductive justice" lens, what does the study of reproduction in the United States reveal about gender, racial, and economic power? 3) What imperatives and strategies should be employed or prioritized in advancing legal advocacy for reproductive justice?