Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health continues a trajectory of U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence that undermines the normative foundation of public health — the idea that the state is obligated to provide a robust set of supports for healthcare services and the underlying social determinants of health. Do...
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| author | Ahmed, Aziza Evans, Dabney P Jackson, Jason Meier, Benjamin Mason Tomori, Cecília |
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| description | Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health continues a trajectory of U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence that undermines the normative foundation of public health — the idea that the state is obligated to provide a robust set of supports for healthcare services and the underlying social determinants of health. Dobbs furthers a longstanding ideology of individual responsibility in public health, neglecting collective responsibility for better health outcomes. Such an ideology on individual responsibility not only enables a shrinking of public health infrastructure for reproductive health, it facilitates the rise of reproductive coercion and a criminal legal response to pregnancy and abortion. This commentary situates Dobbs in the context of a long historical shift in public health that increasingly places burdens on individuals for their own reproductive health care, moving away from the possibility of a robust state public health infrastructure. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1561672024-09-19T15:43:35Z Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion Ahmed, Aziza Evans, Dabney P Jackson, Jason Meier, Benjamin Mason Tomori, Cecília Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health continues a trajectory of U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence that undermines the normative foundation of public health — the idea that the state is obligated to provide a robust set of supports for healthcare services and the underlying social determinants of health. Dobbs furthers a longstanding ideology of individual responsibility in public health, neglecting collective responsibility for better health outcomes. Such an ideology on individual responsibility not only enables a shrinking of public health infrastructure for reproductive health, it facilitates the rise of reproductive coercion and a criminal legal response to pregnancy and abortion. This commentary situates Dobbs in the context of a long historical shift in public health that increasingly places burdens on individuals for their own reproductive health care, moving away from the possibility of a robust state public health infrastructure. 2024-08-14T20:29:32Z 2024-08-14T20:29:32Z 2023 2024-08-14T20:19:43Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156167 Ahmed A, Evans DP, Jackson J, Meier BM, Tomori C. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 2023;51(3):485-489. en 10.1017/jme.2023.137 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press |
| spellingShingle | Ahmed, Aziza Evans, Dabney P Jackson, Jason Meier, Benjamin Mason Tomori, Cecília Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion |
| title | Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion |
| title_full | Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion |
| title_fullStr | Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion |
| title_short | Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion |
| title_sort | dobbs v jackson women s health undermining public health facilitating reproductive coercion |
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