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Wikimedia Commons | Four reproductive health and justice experts highlighted the importance of global human rights guidelines on planning US abortion policy at an event hosted by the Georgetown University Global Health Institute Apr. 18.

Medical, Legal Experts Consider Human Rights Implications of Murky Medical Exceptions to Abortion Bans at Online Talk

By Audrey Twyford, Staff Science Writer April 24, 2024

The Georgetown University Global Health Institute invited four reproductive health and justice experts to weigh in on the human rights impacts of abortion bans in the United States at an April 18 online...

Georgetown University students and faculty joined protestors from around the country for the March For Life, which advocates for ending abortion in the U.S., Jan. 19 at the National Mall. Despite D.C.’s snowy conditions, thousands of people attended the annual march, the second since the Supreme Court  overturned Roe v. Wade. // Photo from Julian Jimenez

March for Life Highlights Spirited Campus Debate on Reproductive Rights

By Paulina Inglima January 26, 2024

Georgetown University students and faculty joined protestors from around the country for the March For Life, which advocates for ending abortion in the United States, on Jan. 19 at the National Mall.  Despite...

Annual Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Campus Discourse

Annual Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Campus Discourse

By Maren Fagan January 24, 2024

The 25th annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life (OCC) united prominent Catholic clergy, advocacy experts and students to discuss the state of anti-abortion politics and the sanctity of human life...

Ruling Challenging FDA Approval of Mifepristone Raises Concern for Students

Ruling Challenging FDA Approval of Mifepristone Raises Concern for Students

By Alexa Hill April 19, 2023

The future of abortion access in the United States is up in the air as the Supreme Court decides whether or not to uphold a Texas judge’s block of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval...

The Intersection | Protect Abortion Access

The Intersection | Protect Abortion Access

By Keerthana Ramanathan April 14, 2023

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a landmark Supreme Court case decided in June 2022, redefined — and overturned — the idea of reproductive bodily autonomy.  Abortion...

Everyday Science | Georgetown, Treat Birth Control as Healthcare

Everyday Science | Georgetown, Treat Birth Control as Healthcare

By Claire Chou March 29, 2023

Georgetown University has changed since the university’s founding in 1789, but one quality has remained true: if you want to access contraceptives, you are looking at an uphill battle.  Georgetown...

VIEWPOINT: Resist Anti-Abortion Rhetoric on Campus

VIEWPOINT: Resist Anti-Abortion Rhetoric on Campus

By Micaeli Dym February 24, 2023

On Jan. 21, members of the Georgetown University student body gathered as a community to protest one of the largest anti-abortion conferences in the United States — the Cardinal O’Connor Conference...

Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Student Opposition

Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Student Opposition

By Nina Raj and Michelle Vassilev January 31, 2023

Students and campus groups came together in protest after Georgetown University hosted and sponsored the largest student-run anti-abortion conference in the nation. The Cardinal O’Connor Conference...

SAC Approves Funding for Abortion Rights Panel

By Laura Engshuber March 4, 2010

**Update:** This article was updated at 4:28 p.m. on March 4. The Student Activities Commission voted Monday in favor of funding an abortion rights event to be held by Plan A: Hoyas for Reproductive...

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