Organised by Marlyse Debergh (Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Bern and University of Fribourg. Research associate at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Geneva) and Pauline Milani (University of Fribourg), this workshop aims to stimulate international and interdisciplinary exchanges, and to open up new directions for research on abortion, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and reproductive justice more broadly. By bringing feminist, transnational and intersectional perspectives into conversation, experts will discuss the following questions:

What is the legacy of past feminist struggles for abortion care? What are the challenges pro-choice feminists currently face? Why and how is abortion currently criminalized? What do travelling for abortions and abortion pills tell us about reproductive violence and feminist resistance? What is the future of abortion politics?

I am contributing to Roundtable 1: Why and how is abortion still criminalized? along with Irène Maffi (University of Lausanne) and Susanne Rohner (Umbrella organization Sexual Health Switzerland), with Carolin Schurr (University of Bern) as Chair.