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Abortion Rhetoric, Personhood, and the Texas Heartbeat Act (SB 8)

Abortion Rhetoric, Personhood,
and the Texas Heartbeat Act (SB 8)

 

Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Bioethics
Director, Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities 
Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine
School of Public and Population Health
University of Texas Medical Branch

 

Thursday, September 8, 2022
12:00pm - 1:00pm

This will be a hybrid lecture

Health Education Center
Room 1.200

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Learning objectives:

  • Identify how language shapes the abortion debate
  • Describe how disagreement about reproductive terms prevents meaningful conversation
  • Discuss various political strategies to limit abortion rights by granting fetuses personhood


 

 

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Abortion Rhetoric, Personhood, and the Texas Heartbeat Act (SB 8)
, 2022 - -
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