Jill Wieber Lens Breaks Down Legal Ramifications of Stillbirth and Rhetoric of Abortion Debate

This month’s Quick Talks from the Hill options Jill Wieber Lens, professor and affiliate dean for analysis and school growth on the Faculty of Legislation.

Lens is a number one skilled on authorized recognition and therapy of stillbirth. She has written about stillbirth throughout the context of tort regulation, treatments regulation, prison regulation, maternal well being care and reproductive rights and justice.

Extra not too long ago, her analysis on this space has led to inspecting the authorized ramifications of abortion and rhetoric of the abortion debate, particularly in mild of the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s choice to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

“One thing that is actually irritating me in regards to the abortion debate for a very long time is that being pregnant loss just isn’t within the image,” Lens says within the podcast. “And that is from either side. As a result of the anti-abortion facet needs us to imagine that each being pregnant not terminated will find yourself with a residing child. And the abortion-rights facet needs us to imagine that each being pregnant not terminated will find yourself in pressured parenthood. The thousands and thousands of being pregnant losses that occur yearly are simply erased, like they simply do not occur.”

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