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Women’s Rights are Civil Rights: The Supreme Court & Choice

Tuesday, November 14, 2006, at 12:50 p.m.

New York Law School, Room A300

The Justice Action Center presented Women’s Rights are Civil Rights: The Supreme Court & Choice. Marcia Greenberger, National Women's Law Center, discussed women's rights and reproductive freedom and Priscilla Smith, Center for Reproductive Rights, discussed recent challenges to "partial-birth abortion" bans on which she was counsel, including Gonzales v.Carhart, a challenge to the federal abortion ban that was be heard by the Supreme Court on November 8, 2006. Professor Carlin Meyer moderated this event.

Pizza and soda were served to all attendees.

Marcia Greenberger is the founder and Co-President of the National Women's Law Center. The creation of the Center over 30 years ago established her as the first full-time women's right legal advocate in Washington, D.C.

A recognized expert on sex discrimination and the law, at the National Women’s Law, Ms. Greenberger has participated in the development of key legislative initiatives and litigation protecting women’s rights, particularly in the areas of education, employment, family economic security, health and reproductive rights. She has been a leader in developing strategies to secure the successful passage of legislation protecting women and

counsel in landmark litigation establishing new legal precedents for women, and is the author of numerous published articles.

Priscilla Smith is Director of the Domestic Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and defending women's reproductive rights worldwide.

Ms. Smith has litigated reproductive rights cases in courts across the country. She has challenged restrictions on abortion in Louisiana, Arkansas, Michigan, Oklahoma and Iowa, and recently acted as either lead attorney or co-counsel in a number of successful challenges to bans on so-called "partial-birth abortion." She was co-counsel in Stenberg v. Carhart, the Center's challenge to a Nebraska so-called "partial-birth" abortion ban that went to the U.S. Supreme Court, and won. She is lead counsel in Gonzales v. Carhart, the Center's challenge to a federal abortion ban that is nearly identical to the Nebraska ban. That case, also brought on behalf of Dr. LeRoy Carhart and other physicians, was heard by the Supreme Court on November 8, 2006.

Listen to Ms. Smith's oral argument in Gonzales v. Carhart, as well as the oral argument in Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood, C-SPAN.

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Women’s Rights are Civil Rights: The Supreme Court & Choice

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