Abortion Rhetoric, Personhood,
and the Texas Heartbeat Act (SB 8)
Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Bioethics
Director, Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities
Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine
School of Public and Population Health
University of Texas Medical Branch
Thursday, September 8, 2022
12:00pm - 1:00pm
This will be a hybrid lecture
Health Education Center
Room 1.200 | Register HERE in advance for the Zoom lecture
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Learning objectives:
- Identify how language shapes the abortion debate
- Describe how disagreement about reproductive terms prevents meaningful conversation
- Discuss various political strategies to limit abortion rights by granting fetuses personhood