Critical Conversations: Abortion, Anthropology of Tomorrow Salon, Purdue University

During Summer 2022, the US Supreme Court delivered many landmark decisions with near- and long-term implications for our lives. Among them, the Dobbs v. Jackson Whole Women’s Health Organization ruling received significant attention and continues to do so. In response to the ruling, Indiana lawmakers convened in a special summer session to outlaw abortion with very few exceptions. That statute, which was the first abortion ban passed and signed into law following Dobbs, took effect on September 15th though is enjoined as a federal court decides whether it violates the Indiana State Constitution.

This event brought members of the Purdue community together to learn how anthropologists of abortion are responding and to discuss how politics of reproduction intersect with our roles as students, researchers, teachers, mentors, employees, and members of diverse communities.