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UC Berkeley News: Tracking The Legal, Scientific, And Medical Campaign To Curtail Reproductive Rights
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March 11, 2022
Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center (opens in a new tab) has exposed war crimes, atrocities, and other international law violations around the globe for nearly 30 years. A new project that’s
just been released instead scrutinizes a domestic issue: the legal, scientific, and medical campaign to curtail reproductive rights, as part of a collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (opens in a new tab).
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“A Strike at the Heart of Roe (opens in a new tab)” debuted Feb. 12 on the weekly radio show from Reveal (opens in a new tab), a nonprofit news organization that’s part of the Center for
Investigative Reporting. It tracks the growing success of so-called “heartbeat bills,” which seek to outlaw abortion after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, typically around six weeks of gestation.
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