Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2022
When Rape Results in Pregnancy:
The Intersection of Rape and Abortion
April 27, 2022 | 6-7pm EST
Our virtual panel will examine the intersection of abortion laws and rape, bringing together a diversity of speakers in the medical, legal, and academic fields. Listen to experts share their insights on this complex issue, and learn how this issue impacts sexual assault survivors.
Michelle Bowdler
Michelle Bowdler is a public health professional who works on issues of sexual assault policy, treatment, prevention and response in higher education and is an advocate nationally on social justice issues related to sexual assault.
Michelle is the author of Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto, which was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction, named a Must Read by TIME Magazine and on the best books list of Publisher’s Weekly and the Boston Globe. Her writing has been published in two anthologies, the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Psychology Today, Literary Hub, the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics and other journals.
You can listen to a podcast in which Bowdler shares her experience here.
Angelita Olowu
Angelita Olowu serves as a Forensic Nursing Specialist with the International Association of Forensic Nurses with 14 years nursing experience. She holds dual certifications as a SANE-A and a SANE-P. She has a background in Emergency and Trauma Nursing.
In her current role, Angelita provides technical assistance on various topics related to the care of patients that have experienced sexual violence including the recommendations within both of the National Adolescent/ Adult and Pediatric Sexual SAFE Protocols. She is the Project Coordinator responsible for oversight of the development of the US Department of Justice (US DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), and National Protocol for Domestic Violence Medical Forensic Exams.
She currently chairs the Integrating Culture Committee for the Canopy Child Advocacy Center.
Mary Ziegler
Mary Ziegler is one of the world’s leading authorities on the legal history of the American abortion debate.
Ziegler has written multiple books, offering a kaleidoscopic view of the history of American abortion law and politics. Her most recent publication, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present offers a comprehensive legal history of the abortion debate, from the recognition of a right to choose to the likely undoing of Roe today. The book documents a consequential shift in the terms of the abortion debate—toward claims about the basic facts—that only deepened polarization.
You can read one of Ziegler’s recent articles on the exclusion of rape and incest exceptions in recent abortion laws here.