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Conversation explores anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The Valparaiso University Conversations Project will continue its annual programming with a Jan. 22 discussion of the impact of Roe v. Wade on the 35th anniversary of the landmark abortion ruling.
“35 Years of Roe v. Wade: Commemorate or Commiserate,” will take place 7 to 9 p.m. in the Christopher Center Community Room and is free and open to the public. Panelists will start a conversation exploring the continuing significance of the controversial Supreme Court ruling, the legal construct of privacy and the implications of judicial decisions on how society values life.
Panelists are Paige Cunningham, an author, law professor and senior fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity; Clarke Forsythe, a Valparaiso law graduate who is president of Americans United for Life and a leading expert on abortion and the law; JoEllen Lind, an associate dean and professor of law at Valparaiso whose scholarship has explored law and political theory; and Jacquelyn Bowie Sues, a senior attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana whose casework has emphasized the constitutional rights of children and the poor. The discussion will be moderated by Rosalie Levinson, Duesenberg professor of law.
The goals of the Conversations Project are to promote mutual education, understanding and political reconciliation through dialog, and to forge connection between the University and Northwest Indiana community. The program is supported by the Valparaiso Project on Civic Reflection and the student organizations Voices for Reproductive Freedom (VOX) and Jus Vitae.
For more information about the Conversations Project, contact Jeremy Telman, associate professor of law, at (219) 465-7811 or visit the Conversations Project Web site.
Upcoming Conversations Project discussions are “Primary School: Lessons from the Presidential Selection Process” on Jan. 30 and “Forty Years Gone: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Many Guises of Prejudice” on April 3.
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