Join the SLS Black Alumni Association for a discussion among legal and policy experts on how to best protect Black people seeking a safe pregnancy and delivery and the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Black people seeking reproductive health care. 

This online event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Stanford Center for Racial Justice. 

An MCLE one-hour credit for the Implicit Bias is offered for this program. As a CA Bar Association-certified MCLE credit provider, this program is eligible for credit in the state of California. Please check with your respective state Bar Association for credit eligibility.

Moderator: Dacia Russell Gomen , MD, JD ‘05, FAAEM

Speakers:
Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (D-IL)
Professor Michelle Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine
Professor Christine Slaughter, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University

Pre-event reading materials and resources:

• How Black women will be especially affected by the loss of Roe
• Overturning Roe v. Wade Begins the New Jane Crow - The Atlantic
• No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution
• Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021
• Rep. Lauren Underwood Outlines the Black Maternal Momnibus Act