The Road Ahead for Roe: The Future for Reproducve Rights and Jusce in the United States

The O ur Bodies Our Doctors d ocumentary team invites community members to an online panel on January 22, 2021--the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade. I n this panel, providers and educators featured in the film join director Jan Haaken and an aorney with ACLU in mapping the road ahead for reproducve jusce as the right-wing Supreme Court seems poised to overturn Roe v Wade. F or decades in the United States, states have been passing laws liming access to aboron in an effort to basically criminalize aboron. T hese relentless assaults on reproducve health care have connued during the pandemic, with the cruelty of their impacts born most severely by marginalized women and communies of color. At the same me, calls for aboron rights and reproducve jusce--the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy as well as to bear and raise healthy children--have gained strength as a social movement.

When: Friday, January 22nd, 5-6:30 PT

Where: H osted by Portland State University, the Portland State University Foundaon, and O ur Bodies Our Doctors outreach team

Tickets: The ckets are available through E ventbrite and aendees are invited to donate with proceeds supporng the S isterSong organizaon and the O ur Bodies Our Doctors Educaonal Outreach. In advance of the panel, aendees can view the film via various digital plaorms which are linked on the O ur Bodies Our Doctors w ebsite. A zoom link will be sent to aendees via email 5 days prior to the event.

Please help us promote "The Road Ahead for Roe" by spreading the word with friends and colleagues via email and social media. You can get updates on our F acebook Event Page a nd our Instagram at @ourbodiesourdoctors

Our Bodies Our Doctors tells the rarely-discussed story of what it means to be an aboron provider today: facing intensified polical threats and efforts to criminalize aboron. Religious control over health care is expanding, including in many pro-choice states. The aboron debate connues to be defined by gruesome images of the an-aboron movement. In contrast, this film provides a crucial, hopeful point of view: an inmate glimpse into the lives of these courageous providers who have devoted their careers to ensuring women have access to skilled, compassionate care. B est Documentary Feature, 2019 Portland Internaonal Film Fesval & Best of SIFF, 2019 Seale Internaonal Film Fesval.

SisterSong Women of Color Reproducve Jusce Collecve was formed in 1997 by 16 organizaons of women of color from four mini-communies (Nave American, African American, Lana, and Asian American) who recognized that we have the right and responsibility to represent ourselves and our communies, and the equally compelling need to advance the perspecves and needs of women of color.

THE PANEL

Jan Haaken (Director & Panel Moderator) is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist and documentary filmmaker. Haaken publishes in the areas of the dynamics of social movements, documentary methods, feminist theory, and the psychology of storytelling. She has directed six feature-length films, including the award-winning O ur Bodies Our Doctors.

Dr. Mark Nichols i s a Professor of OB/GYN at Oregon Health & Sciences University where he launched the Fellowship in Complex Family Planning Fellowship. He serves on the Naonal Board of Planned Parenthood. He has focused on teaching medical students, residents and fellows in contracepon and family planning in the US and has worked internaonally with Doctors Without Borders.

Dr. Deb Oyer is the Medical Director of Cedar River Clinics, which has three clinic sites in the greater Seale area. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at University of Washington School of Medicine in the Departments of Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Willie J. Parker i s an OB/GYN specializing in aborons and a reproducve jusce advocate. Dr. Parker currently provides aboron care for women in AL, MS, PA, GA, and IL, and is the former Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Metropolitan Washington, DC. Parker is the author of L ife’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice.

Dr. Sarah Prager is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington and the Director of the Complex Family Planning Division and Fellowship. Her career is dedicated to reproducve health, rights and jusce in the US and globally and she is a proud aboron provider.

Lorea Ross is a Vising Associate Professor at Smith College teaching “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump” and previous member of SisterSong Women of Color Reproducve Jusce Collecve. Ross is author of Reproducve Jusce: An Introducon, and R adical Reproducve Jusce.

Leah Rutman is the health care & liberty counsel at the ACLU of Washington. In that role she engages in policy and legal work to increase access to affordable, quality health care, including reproducve health, end-of-life, and LGBTQ+ related care. She has also worked and volunteered domescally and abroad at various human rights organizaons.