Post Roe v Wade Implications for Health Professionals

What are the implications of the drastically reduced access to essential reproductive services and abortion care? The decision in Bobbs v Jackson Women's health case overturned Roe V Wade, reversing a constitutional right to abortion that has stood for 50 years. We discuss what this means for Health Professionals.
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Panellists:
Stephanie Tillman, CNM, FACNM is a midwife, writer, and activist in Chicago. After almost ten years in clinical practice, she is now a PhD student in Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University focusing on consent in intimate exams through lenses of queer theory and feminist ethics. Stephanie's teaching and advocacy in abortion care includes leadership on the Boards of Directors of the Midwest Access Project (MAP) and Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health (NSRH), Chairing the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) Ethics Committee, and as an Advisory Committee member of the Queer and Transgender Midwives Association: find her on social media @FeministMidwife.
Monica McLemore, RN, PhD, FAAN is a tenured professor in the Child, Family, and Population Health Department at the University of Washington School of Nursing. She retired from clinical work in 2019; however, currently provides flu and COVID19 vaccines. Her research is focused on reproductive justice. Her peer reviewed articles, OpEds and commentaries have been cited in five amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States and three NASEM reports. She is the recipient of numerous awards and currently serves as chair for Sexual and Reproductive Health section of the American Public Health Association. She became Editor in Chief of Health Equity in 2022. Find her on social media @mclemoremr
Naomi Laventhal, MD, HEC-C is a Neonatologist and Pediatric Bioethicist at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. She cares for infants in the Brandon Newborn Intensive Care Unit and provides prenatal consultation and perinatal care coordination for expectant families in Von Voigtlander Women’s hospital. Her scholarly focus is on perinatal counseling and decision-making for infants born extremely prematurely or affected by complicated obstetric and fetal conditions, with a secondary focus on neonatal and pediatric research ethics. She serves as a faculty ethicist in the Program on Clinical Ethics at the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine: find her on social media @NaomiNeoEthics.