Date & time
Friday, January 31, 2025
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Workshops & seminars
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The Injustices of Girlism
Childhood Pregnancy and Abortion in America
Cost
This event is free
Website
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
After the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many U.S. states enacted abortion bans. This changed legal landscape exposes crucial ethical questions about pregnancy in childhood. What do parents, judges, and physicians owe to an impregnated child as a matter of duty and rights?
This lecture by Dr. Kimberley Brownlee analyses a previously unnamed type of social injustice – girlism – to make sense of the kinds of mistreatment girls endure in the context of pregnancy and abortion, where their status as girls is obscured under this ‘women’s issue’. This lecture will highlight an analogy between pregnancy in childhood and child organ donation, to show that adequate care for impregnated children includes abortion care.
How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
About the Speaker
Dr. Kimberley Brownlee
Kimberley Brownlee holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current work focuses on loneliness, belonging, social human rights, and freedom of association.