Maltz Program Discusses Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Ideas About Reproductive Rights

Wed 5/19 @ 4PM

In conjunction with its current exhibit, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage is hosting a monthly series called I Dissent, exploring Ginsburg’s commitment to voter rights, labor rights and women’s reproductive rights as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

May’s forum deals with the last of those areas, and it’s timely, considering that the U.S. Supreme Court has just agreed to hear a case from Mississippi that would ban abortion after 15 weeks — cutting steeply into second trimester abortions, which is often before women become away of fetal abnormalities or potential health complications.

Laura Hauser, founder of Hauser Law LLC  and Karen Rubin, counsel at Thompson Hine LLP will look at reproductive rights through the lens of the cases of Gonzales v. Carhart, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, and Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania.

Gonzalez v. Carhart was an early indicator of the court’s increasing willingness to limit women’s reproductive freedom, upholding a 2003 bill called “The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.” (“Partial birth” is a term invented by the anti-choice movement to demonize later-term abortions.) It banned one of the most common forms of safe abortion in the second trimester as well as the third.

The other two cases ripped the veil from the anti-choice movement’s pretense of concern for fetuses. Both allowed organizations — in one case a corporate business asserting religious belief — to deny women employees access to contraception under the Affordable Care Act, even when accommodations were made for genuine religious objections.

The program is $10 for non-members, free for Maltz members. It qualifies for Continuing Legal Education credit through the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association for a fee of $40. To register, email cle@clemetrobar.org

Go here to register for the program.

 

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