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DESCRIPTION:A Health & Law Talk with Professor Joanna Erdman\, MacBain Chai
 r in Health Law and Policy\, Schulich School of Law\, Dalhousie University
 \n\nProfessor Erdman will be presenting her work twice at 91ºÚÁÏÍø:\n\n9 Mar
 ch 2016\, 13h-14h30 (lunch served at 12h45)\, IHSP\, Charles Meredith Hous
 e\, 1130 ave des Pins Ouest\n\nAnd as a special seminar organized for stud
 ents:\n\n10 March 2016\, 12h30-14h (lunch served at 12h15)\, NCDH 316\, Fa
 culty of Law (entry via 3660 Peel)\n\nSpace is limited\, kindly RSVP at rg
 hl [dot] law [at] mcgill [dot] ca \n\n(if RSVP'ing for the March 10 semina
 r\, please indicate Student Event RSVP in the subject line)\n\nAbstract\n
 \nThis paper examines the upsurge in global advocacy on and for human righ
 ts in family planning\, and claims that like so many other fields in human
  rights\, family planning has become depoliticized. Its language of choice
  and access occludes primary causes of violations\, the precarious conditi
 ons of the labor market\, the sexual division of care work\, and the gende
 r dimensions of economic restructuring which structure peoples’ lives and 
 often leave pregnancy as the only source of social and economic security. 
 The human rights agenda turns rather to more manageable projects in health
  service delivery\, protecting the individual from harm versus offering a 
 program of social justice. Human rights in family planning are defined by 
 the guarantee of choice and access within socio-economic constraints\, eac
 h individual empowered as a responsible agent and accountable for their ow
 n well-being. This is the same belief that sustains economic relations of 
 social inequality\, including the disparagement and disillusionment of the
  state and of public health systems as social institutions. Human rights i
 n family planning have become estranged from political empowerment and col
 lective action\, delinking reproduction from economic resources\, secure l
 ivelihoods and participation in public life.\n\nSpeaker\n\nJoanna Erdman i
 s an assistant professor and the inaugural MacBain Chair in Health Law and
  Policy at the Schulich School of Law\, Dalhousie University. Her research
  focuses on sexual and reproductive health law in a transnational context.
  She has published in leading journals on harm reduction in safe abortion\
 , the regulation of emergency contraception\, and human papillomavirus vac
 cines policy\, and she is the co-editor of the recent collection\, Abortio
 n Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies (UPenn Press\,
  2014). Joanna chairs the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Public H
 ealth Program\, Open Society Foundations and the Gender and Rights Panel o
 f the Human Reproduction Programme\, World Health Organization. Joanna rec
 eived her BA and JD degrees from the University of Toronto and her LLM fro
 m Harvard\, and completed a fellowship at Yale Law School.\n\n(Co-sponsore
 d with the IHSP and the Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in 
 Health Law and Policy )\n
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LOCATION:Charles Meredith House\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1A3\, 1130 avenu
 e des Pins Ouest
SUMMARY:Human Rights and the Contraceptive Imperative
URL:/channels/event/human-rights-and-contraceptive-imp
 erative-259357
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