Professor Ikemoto Discusses Roe's End in L.A. Times Op-Ed, Multiple Interviews

Professor Lisa Ikemoto, a leading expert on reproductive rights and health care law, has discussed the reverberations of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade with several regional, national and international news outlets.

Ikemoto appeared on Capital Public Radio’s Insight with Vicki Gonzalez program on June 27 to discuss the potential implications for health care law and medical research of the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

In a July 7 Los Angeles Times op-ed headlined "How IVF could be derailed by abortion restrictions," Ikemoto explored the Dobbs ruling in terms of “the havoc (it) will wreak not just for abortions, but for other forms of reproductive care,” including fertility services. 

Ikemoto spoke to NPR/Kaiser Health News for a July 4 story on how vaccine opponents have co-opted “My Body, My Choice,” a slogan once closely associated with the abortion-rights movement, and how the post-Roe reproductive rights messaging focuses more heavily on access to health care.

Ikemoto spoke to Medscape for a July 7 story about doctors who fear violating abortion laws post-Roe America and on July 8 appeared on the English-language Korean news show The Point to discuss the legal scope of the Dobbs decision. Newsy quoted Ikemoto in a July 19 story on concerns about how Dobbs will affect in-vitro fertilization. 

On the day of the ruling, Ikemoto gave interviews to WebMD,  Sacramento’s Channel 13, ABC 10 and Telemundo 33 television stations, as well as the UK's SkyNews and San Francisco's KCBS radio station.

Lisa Ikemoto, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, has written extensively on genetic and reproductive technology, the regulation of fertility and pregnancy, and race and gender disparities in health care. Her current work examines emerging issues in regenerative medicine, including stem cell research, and the human tissues market.

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