Penn ACS was honored to co-sponsor this panel with a great variety of the University's issue-focused groups. Other co-sponsors included the UPenn Journal of Law and Social Change, Penn Law Bioethics Society, Penn Law for Reproductive Justice, the Feminist Working group, and the Women Studies Program at Penn.

Panelists, and the topics they spoke on:
1) Anita Allen, Deputy Dean and Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvannia
"Partial Birth and Total Death: Violence, Heroism and the Politics of “Late-Term” Abortion”

2) Carole Joffe: Professor, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
“The Legacy of Dr. George Tiller”

3) Kim Mutcherson, Rutgers-Camden Law School, Visiting Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Law School
"Why Abortion Politics Matter for the Infertile"

4) Salamisha Tillet, Dept. of English, University of Pennsylvania
“Reproductive Justice in the Post-Feminist Era”

5) Susan Frietsche, Women's Law Project

Speaking to a full room of close to 100 students, the professors and practitioner elucidated some of the issues of significance in this are and highlighted the dangers of complicity even with a more progressive President in office. Focus was placed on issues of rhetoric and media and examples were shared of key happenings in the social movements around the country. The panel provided a terrific overview of many different areas for both concern and optimism.