UC Berkeley News: Tracking The Legal, Scientific, And Medical Campaign To Curtail Reproductive Rights

Berkeley CA

14 March, 2022

6:12 AM

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Press release from UC Berkeley News: March 11, 2022 Berkeley Law's Human Rights Center (opens in a new tab) has exposed war crimes, atrocities, and other international law violations around the globe for nearly 30 years. A new project that's just been released instead scrutinizes a domestic issue: the legal, scientific, and medical campaign to curtail reproductive rights, as part of a collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (opens in a new tab). "A Strike at the Heart of Roe (opens in a new tab)" debuted Feb. 12 on the weekly radio show from Reveal (opens in a new tab), a nonprofit news organization that's part of the Center for Investigative Reporting. It tracks the growing success of so-called "heartbeat bills," which seek to outlaw abortion after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, typically around six weeks of gestation. This press release was produced by UC Berkeley News. The views expressed here are the author's own.