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Harmful Anti-Sex-Selective Abortion Laws are Sweeping US State Legislatures: Why Do Some Pro-Choice People Support Them?

Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Rockefeller Hall, 190
Central Campus

Since 2009, nearly half of all state legislatures have considered bills to prohibit sex-selective abortion. The majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of a similar ban in 2012. The laws stigmatize and stereotype Asian Americans, restrict women’s access to non-selective abortion, and are likely unconstitutional.  Yet, elected officials who are pro-choice have voted in favor of the bans. Liberal media sources wrongly report that Asian Americans are aborting female fetuses at rates similar to people in India and China.  Pro-choice people appear to be torn about how to react to these particular abortion restrictions.   

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Lecture

Departments

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies

Tags

cascal, cashum, fgsscal, lgbtstudiescal

Contact E-Mail

tdm68@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Trisica Munroe

Contact Phone

607.255.6481

Speaker

Sital Kalantry

Speaker Affiliation

Cornell Law School

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public

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