Columbia Law School professor to address “Abortion Privacy/Abortion Secrecy”

March 17, 2015

Thursday at noon, Carol Sanger, the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, will present “Abortion Privacy/Abortion Secrecy: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?” in the Holland Law Center at the UF Levin College of Law.

The Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture investigates the practices of concealment and nondisclosure that regularly accompany planning or having an abortion in the United States.  

Sanger will discuss the distinction between abortion “privacy” and “secrecy,” and how women experience the decision, procedure and aftermath of abortion. She will also talk about the volume of public discussion of abortion, as it compares to the small amount of talk among women themselves.

The Center on Children and Families Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law was made possible by an endowment supported by Frank G. Finkbeiner (JD 72) and T.W. Ackert (JD 72). Walter Weyrauch, who passed away in 2008, was a distinguished professor of law at UF Law.