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Spring 2025

5297 Reproductive Rights - RAINE- 25309

Professor(s): Susan Raine (ADJUNCT)

Credits: 2

Course Areas: Health Law 

Time: 5:30p-7:30p  M  Location: 100 

Course Outline: This course introduces issues in reproductive health rights, including regulation of sex, pregnancy, and reproductive decision-making. Specifically, we will address legal and ethical questions that arise in the context of family planning and pregnancy. We will examine the issues from a historical and contemporary perspective, considering the role culture, gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, and social institutions play in shaping reproductive rights.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Face-to-Face)   The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.


Quota= 25

Prerequisites:  

First Day Assignments:

Final Exam Schedule: 5/5/2025 5:30-7:30      

This course will have:
Exam:
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Available

Course Materials

Book(s) Required

Course Materials: Murray and Luker, Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice (2nd ed. 2023) (abbreviated “CB” in reading assessments)