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DESCRIPTION:Join The New Republic for a livestream discussion, On the Front Lines: 
 Protecting Abortion Rights and Reproductive Freedom, a look at the national 
 assault against women’s right to choose and how we can 
 counter-attack.\n\nPANEL:\n--Michele Goodwin, author, advocate, professor 
 of law and public health, UC Irvine\n--Lyz Lenz, author and 
 journalist\n--Renee Bracey Sherman, activist and writer\n--Moderated by 
 Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic staff writer\n\nDate and time: Mon, 
 June 6, 2022 @ 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tnr-liveon-the-front-lines-protecting-abortion-rights-tickets-344974446857\n\n\nSPEAKERS 
 BIOS:\n\nMichele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the 
 University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for 
 Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is the recipient of the 2020-21 
 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highest honor bestowed 
 by the University of California. She is also the first law professor at the 
 University of California, Irvine to receive this award. She is an elected 
 member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the 
 American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center (the organization central 
 to the founding of bioethics). She is an American Law Institute Adviser for 
 the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies.\n\nLyz Lenz writing has been 
 published in the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, the Columbia 
 Journalism Review, The New York Times, and others. Her book God Land was 
 published in 2019, through Indiana University Press. Her second book 
 Belabored, was published in 2020 by Bold Type Books. Lyz’s essay “All 
 the Angry Women” was also included in the anthology Not that Bad edited 
 by Roxane Gay. Her third book, This American Ex Wife, will be published by 
 Crown. Lyz lives in Iowa with her two kids and two dogs and one cat. She 
 writes a regular newsletter, Men Yell At Me, where she explores the 
 intersection of politics and our bodies in red state America.\n\nRenee 
 Bracey Sherman is a reproductive justice activist, abortion storyteller, 
 strategist, and writer. She is the founder and executive director of We 
 Testify, an organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of 
 people who have abortions and share their stories at the intersection of 
 race, class, and gender identity. Her writing has been featured in the New 
 York Times, Washington Post, EBONY, and The Guardian and her work has been 
 profiled in Harper's Bazaar, Zora Magazine, and Bitch Magazine. She is also 
 an executive producer of Ours to Tell, an award-winning documentary 
 elevating the voices of people who’ve had abortions.\n\nMelissa Gira 
 Grant is a staff writer at The New Republic, where she reports on on 
 gender, sexuality, politics, and justice. She is the author of Playing the 
 Whore: The Work of Sex Work and the forthcoming A Woman Is Against the Law: 
 Sex, Race, and the Limits of Justice in America.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/05/25/18849961.php
SUMMARY:On the Front Lines: Protecting Abortion Rights and Reproductive Freedom
LOCATION:Online event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/05/25/18849961.php
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