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Co-presented by the Guild of St. Luke and the Catholic Lawyers’ Guild

THE POST-DOBBS LANDSCAPE:

MEDICAL AND LEGAL DIMENSIONS

Saturday, January 13

DiGiovanni Hall, St. Paul’s Campus

Christina Francis MD

CEO, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Professor Dwight Duncan

University of Massachusetts School of Law

Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, a wave of information and misinformation has emerged from various sectors, including government, media, and medical sources. This program aims to navigate through this discourse, providing clarity on the current medical and legal landscape and distinguishing truth from ideological posturing. Two distinguished presenters unpack both the legal and medical issues, followed by Q&A.

Christina Francis MD

Dr. Christina Francis is a board-certified OB/GYN in Fort Wayne, IN. She completed medical school at Indiana University in 2005 and her OB/GYN residency at St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis in 2009. She is a board member and CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, an associate scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a board member of Indiana Right to Life, and a physician member of the Abortion Pill Reversal Network. She has written on issues surrounding women’s health and abortion for publications including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and USA Today. As a pro-life speaker and writer, Dr. Francis offers her medical expertise, knowledge of bioethics, and pro-life reasoning to audiences both here in the U.S and around the globe.

Professor Dwight Duncan

Dwight Duncan is Professor of Law at the University of Massachusetts School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law, legal ethics, bioethics, and courses on religion and law. A member of the Massachusetts and Washington, DC bars, he has written numerous articles on legal, moral, and religious issues, as well as amicus briefs for the U. S. Supreme Court. Professor Duncan has argued before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the United States Court of Appeals. A graduate of Harvard College, he received his JD from Georgetown, as well as LCL and DCL degrees from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

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