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DESCRIPTION:A Health & Law Talk with Professor Joanna Erdman\, MacBain Chai
 r in Health Law and Policy\, Schulich School of Law\, Dalhousie University
 \n\nProfessor Erdman will be presenting her work twice at 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ:\n\n9 Mar
 ch 2016\, 13h-14h30 (lunch served at 12h45)\, IHSP\, Charles Meredith Hous
 e\, 1130 ave des Pins Ouest\n\nAnd as a special seminar organized for stud
 ents:\n\n10 March 2016\, 12h30-14h (lunch served at 12h15)\, NCDH 316\, Fa
 culty of Law (entry via 3660 Peel)\n\nSpace is limited\, kindly RSVP at rg
 hl.law [at] mcgill.ca \n\n(if RSVP'ing for the March 10 seminar\, please i
 ndicate Student Event RSVP in the subject line)\n\nAbstract\n\nThis paper 
 examines the upsurge in global advocacy on and for human rights in family 
 planning\, and claims that like so many other fields in human rights\, fam
 ily planning has become depoliticized. Its language of choice and access o
 ccludes primary causes of violations\, the precarious conditions of the la
 bor market\, the sexual division of care work\, and the gender dimensions 
 of economic restructuring which structure peoples’ lives and often leave p
 regnancy as the only source of social and economic security. The human rig
 hts agenda turns rather to more manageable projects in health service deli
 very\, protecting the individual from harm versus offering a program of so
 cial justice. Human rights in family planning are defined by the guarantee
  of choice and access within socio-economic constraints\, each individual 
 empowered as a responsible agent and accountable for their own well-being.
  This is the same belief that sustains economic relations of social inequa
 lity\, including the disparagement and disillusionment of the state and of
  public health systems as social institutions. Human rights in family plan
 ning have become estranged from political empowerment and collective actio
 n\, delinking reproduction from economic resources\, secure livelihoods an
 d participation in public life.\n\nSpeaker\n\nJoanna Erdman is an assistan
 t professor and the inaugural MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy at th
 e Schulich School of Law\, Dalhousie University. Her research focuses on s
 exual and reproductive health law in a transnational context. She has publ
 ished in leading journals on harm reduction in safe abortion\, the regulat
 ion of emergency contraception\, and human papillomavirus vaccines policy\
 , and she is the co-editor of the recent collection\, Abortion Law in Tran
 snational Perspective: Cases and Controversies (UPenn Press\, 2014). Joann
 a chairs the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Public Health Program
 \, Open Society Foundations and the Gender and Rights Panel of the Human R
 eproduction Programme\, World Health Organization. Joanna received her BA 
 and JD degrees from the University of Toronto and her LLM from Harvard\, a
 nd completed a fellowship at Yale Law School.\n\n(Co-sponsored with the IH
 SP and the Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law an
 d Policy )\n
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LOCATION:NCDH 316\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Human Rights and the Contraceptive Imperative (student session)
URL:/law/channels/event/human-rights-and-contraceptive
 -imperative-student-session-259358
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