Jill Wieber Lens Breaks Down Legal Ramifications of Stillbirth and Rhetoric of Abortion Debate
This month's Short Talks from the Hill features Jill Wieber Lens, professor and associate dean for research and faculty development at the School of Law.
Lens is a leading expert on legal recognition and treatment of stillbirth. She has written about stillbirth within the context of tort law, remedies law, criminal law, maternal health care and reproductive rights and justice.
More recently, her research in this area has led to examining the legal ramifications of abortion and rhetoric of the abortion debate, especially in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
"Something that's really frustrating me about the abortion debate for a long time is that pregnancy loss is not in the picture," Lens says in the podcast. "And that's from both sides. Because the anti-abortion side wants us to believe that every pregnancy not terminated will end up with a living baby. And the abortion-rights side wants us to believe that every pregnancy not terminated will end up in forced parenthood. The millions of pregnancy losses that happen every year are just erased, like they just don't happen."
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Jill Wieber Lens, professor
School of Law
479-575-6932,
jilllens@uark.edu
Matt McGowan, science and research communications officer
University Relations
479-575-4246,
dmcgowa@uark.edu
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