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DESCRIPTION:Mugambi Jouet will contrast the interaction between federalism 
 and abortion policy and politics in Canada and the USA in Prof. Johanne Po
 irier's Comparative Federalism class.\n\nAbstract of A HISTORY OF POST-ROE
  AMERICA AND CANADA: FROM INTERTWINED ABORTION BATTLES TO DOBBS by Mugambi
  Jouet\n\nThe changing landscape on abortion following Dobbs has not only 
 sparked a vigorous debate in the United States\, but also abroad. The recr
 iminalization of abortion in America led to an outcry in peer Western demo
 cracies\, whose leaders widely condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision
 . Yet the social and historical reasons for this international divide are 
 poorly understood. This Article sheds light on abortion in the modern West
 ern world through an in-depth comparison of American and Canadian abortion
  history from Roe to Dobbs\, as the neighboring nations’ paths have been i
 ntertwined in intriguing and overlooked ways. When the U.S. Supreme Court 
 decided Roe v. Wade in 1973\, it heartened Canadian reformers who repeated
 ly cited Roe as a model to follow. The Supreme Court of Canada would not d
 ecriminalize abortion until 1988 in its landmark Morgentaler decision—fift
 een years after Roe.\n\nThis history\, documented with original English- a
 nd Frenchlanguage sources\, reveals as much about America as about Canada.
  If both countries had seemingly converged in liberalizing abortion\, the 
 outcomes of their seminal court decisions would markedly differ. In Americ
 a\, the pro-choice movement increasingly was on the retreat after Roe as a
 nti-abortion forces gained ground. In Canada\, by contrast\, the anti-abor
 tion movement gradually collapsed following Morgentaler\, as in much of th
 e modern Western world. Still\, in each country jurisdictions opposed to a
 bortion tried to regulate it out of existence. It was not before 2016 that
  Prince Edward Island—the last Canadian province to hold out—joined the re
 st of the country in allowing abortion. Only a few years later\, the U.S. 
 anti-abortion movement succeeded in overturning Roe\, leading to the recri
 minalization of abortion in over a dozen American states in stark contrast
  to the historical evolution of reproductive rights. Canada now protects a
 bortion far better than the neighbor from which it once sought inspiration
 . Americans seeking to reinvigorate reproductive rights instead point to C
 anada as a model to follow in the post-Dobbs era. This extraordinary histo
 rical reversal and role reversal deserves closer attention\, as it offers 
 insight into numerous dimensions of the abortion debate.\n\nPlease RSVP at
  : caroline.homet [at] mail.mcgill.ca. \n
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LOCATION:Room 312
SUMMARY:Mugambi Jouet - Interaction between federalism and abortion policy 
 and politics in Canada and the USA
URL:/law/fr/channels/event/mugambi-jouet-interaction-b
 etween-federalism-and-abortion-policy-and-politics-canada-and-usa-363786
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