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DESCRIPTION:This summer\, the Paul-AndrУЉ CrУЉpeau Centre for Private and Com
 parative Law is presenting a series of Summer Seminars in which the whole 
 91жБВЅ Law community is invited to take part. The main purpose of this sem
 inar series is to offer a forum to younger scholars to present their ideas
  and to engage with those of others in an informal setting.  Cookies and c
 old drinks will be served.  Speaker: Lisa Kelly\, Faculty of Law\, Harvard
  University  Title: Narrating Innocent Suffering in Abortion Law  Abstract
 : Over the past decade\, reproductive rights advocates have pursued a seri
 es of lawful abortion access cases from Latin America before the United Na
 tions and Inter-American human rights systems.Т  These cases have met with 
 resounding legal success.Т  Advocates celebrate these decisions as importan
 t victories for the advancement of abortion rights in international human 
 rights law.Т  In this presentation\, I offer a more ambivalent reading of t
 hese cases\, however\, specifically of how they narrate abortion and sexua
 lity.Т  All but one of these claims has involved rape\, and all but one has
  concerned minors.Т  I identify in these cases a recurring narrative of inn
 ocent suffering: an adolescent girl\, figured often as a child\, is raped\
 , becomes pregnant\, and with the support of her parents seeks to terminat
 e the pregnancy.Т  This narrative proves powerful but also perilous for abo
 rtion rights advocates.Т  Cases involving adolescent rape and parental bene
 ficence resonate powerfully with publics and with legal decision-makers.Т  
 And yet by narrating sympathetic cases likely to secure greater support fo
 r abortion access\, advocates risk reinforcing narrow conceptions of the r
 easonable or deserved abortion. Thus\, narratives of innocent suffering ca
 n sustain lines of argument and (re)produce legal rules that undercut the 
 very emancipatory goals of the reproductive rights movement.
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LOCATION:Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, 
 QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Summer Seminars: Narrating Innocent Suffering in Abortion Law 
URL:/law/channels/event/summer-seminars-narrating-inno
 cent-suffering-abortion-law-229253
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