Personhood and Pregnancy Symposium

The Personhood and Pregnancy Symposium featured forthcoming scholarship from academics and practitioners on fetal personhood, gender stereotypes, reproductive justice, wrongful convictions and junk science, and the post-Dobbs landscape. Articles will be published in a special edition of the NYU Review of Law and Social Change online journal, The Harbinger. Welcome and Opening (Lourdes A. Rivera) A Legal Reimagining of Pregnancy (Karen Thompson, Kim Mutcherson, Cindy Soohoo, Margaret Johnson, Zanita Fenton) The Impulse to Punish: An American Response to Pregnancy (Wendy Bach, Kulsoom Ijaz, Wendy Heipt, Rebecca Reingold) Where Junk Science Meets Gender Stereotypes (Dara Gell, Janet Levit, Valena Beety) This symposium was co-hosted by NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, Reproductive Justice Clinic, Review of Law and Social Change; and Pregnancy Justice.