Human Rights and the Contraceptive Imperative
Une conférence sur la santé et le droit avec la professeure Joanna Erdman, titulaire de la MacBain et droit et politique en matière de santé, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
La professeure Erdman fera deux présentation:
9 mars 2016, 13h-14h30 (repas à 12h45), IHSP, Charles Meredith House
Conférence pour les étudiants:
10 mars 2016, 12h30-14h (repas à 12h15), NCDH 316, Faculty de droit
Les places sont limités. RSVP: rghl.law [at] mcgill.ca
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Résumé
This 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, family planning has become depoliticized. Its language of choice and access occludes primary causes of violations, the precarious conditions of the labor market, the sexual division of care work, and the gender dimensions of economic restructuring which structure peoples’ lives and often leave pregnancy as the only source of social and economic security. The human rights agenda turns rather to more manageable projects in health service delivery, protecting the individual from harm versus offering a program of social 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 inequality, including the disparagement and disillusionment of the state and of public health systems as social institutions. Human rights in family planning have become estranged from political empowerment and collective action, delinking reproduction from economic resources, secure livelihoods and participation in public life.
La conférencière
Joanna Erdman is an assistant professor and the inaugural MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. Her research focuses on sexual and reproductive health law in a transnational context. She has published in leading journals on harm reduction in safe abortion, the regulation of emergency contraception, and human papillomavirus vaccines policy, and she is the co-editor of the recent collection, Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies (UPenn Press, 2014). Joanna chairs the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Public Health Program, Open Society Foundations and the Gender and Rights Panel of the Human Reproduction Programme, World Health Organization. Joanna received her BA and JD degrees from the University of Toronto and her LLM from Harvard, and completed a fellowship at Yale Law School.
(Co-sponsored with the IHSP and the Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy )
