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The Pregnancy Criminalization Playbook: Maternal Health Care on Trial

McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, DC - Up to 6 Credits (where approved)

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Summary:

Across the country, pregnancy and maternal health care are being policed, prosecuted, and politicized. This urgent one-day summit brings together leading voices to discuss how criminalization operates on a national level and what it will take to decriminalize care.

LOCATION: Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy
DATE: December 5, 2025
TIME: 8:00 am - 5:30 pm ET
COST: FREE (registration is required)
CLE Credit: Up to 6.0 credits 

SEMINAR VENUE:
Georgetown University
McCourt School of Public Policy 
125 E St. NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20001

HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS:
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Agenda

The program agenda and faculty are subject to change.

Friday, December 5, 2025
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast & Registration
9:00-9:30 am

Welcome & Keynote Address

  • Professor Michele Goodwin - Linda D. & Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy; Co-Faculty Director, O'Neill Institute
9:30-10:30 am

The Supreme Court’s Quiet Revolution: State Power, Medical Standards, and the Future of Reproductive Rights

  • Molly Meegan, JD, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
10:30-10:45 am Break
10:45 am – 11:45 am

Legacy on the Line: Midwifery from Historic Persecution to Current Prosecutions

  • Dr. Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, Visiting Professor at NYU Meyers
11:45 am- 12:45 pm Lunch Break (Lunch Provided)
12:45-1:45 pm

They Can Jail Someone for That?

  • Cary Aspinwall, Investigative Reporter, The Marshall Project
1:45-2:45 pm

Criminalization Care: New Findings on Reproductive Health Prosecutions and Arrests

  • Dr. Grace Howard, San Jose State University
2:45-3:00 pm Break
3:00-4:00 pm

Disability, Parenting, and Criminalization

  • Dr. Monika Mitra, Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Policy and Director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University
4:00-5:00 pm

Bans Without Borders: Immigrant Communities Under Attack

5:00-5:30 pm

Closing

 

Faculty

  • Professor Michele Goodwin, Co-faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
  • Cary Aspinwall, Investigative Reporter, The Marshall Project
  • Molly Meegan, JD, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Dr. Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, Visiting Professor at NYU Meyers
  • Dr. Monika Mitra, Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Policy and Director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University
  • Dr. Grace Howard, San Jose State University

 

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