Law · Boston College
Women in the United States currently face health risks that are simultaneously unprecedented, predictable, and readily preventable. This course should be of interest to ALL because womens health affects the lives of their partners, children, and communities.This course will examine the ways in which law, policy and politics operate separately and collectively to protect and/or impede the individual and public health of women. Specific issues may include: 1) how the Dobbs Courts 2022 erasure of longstanding abortion protections has increased maternal and infant mortality by curtailing federally
