Three first-year Ph.D. Students - Carmen Haynes, MPH, Evelyn Lamb, MA, and Rachel Ray, MS - came together under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein to write an Open Peer Commentary in response to Laura Hermer's article "Abortion and Embodiment."
Their OPC, entitled: "Reimagining Embodiment: Abortion, the Zero Trimester, and Pregnancy as Public Domain" was recently published in the American Journal of Bioethics. In it, the authors argue that societal context, feminist literature, and legal realities must be considered in abortion discourse. They draw on Miranda Waggoner's Zero Trimester theory as a concise and competent framework which highlights the anticipatory and perpetual nature of reproductive regulations for women.
It is wonderful to see three scholars with distinctly different academic backgrounds collaborate on this project and embrace the highly interdisciplinary nature of Bioethics & Health Humanities!