Abortion and End of Life | Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

Wednesday, March 4 | 5:30 PM
Abortion and End of Life: Islamic Medical Ethics and Muslim Women’s Life and Death Decisions with Zahra Ayubi
Location: Riverside Room, Pardee School of Global Studies (121 Bay State Road)

Islamic medical ethics, as practiced and as studied, is overwhelmingly focused on men: men’s bodies, men’s ideas, men’s texts. Remedying this gap with qualitative interviews, Zahra Ayubi of Dartmouth College discusses Muslim women’s experiences and their approaches to decisions about abortion and end of life care. They navigate existential and epistemological questions as they face medical racism and sexism as well as gender insensitivity in authoritative religious discourses.

A light meal will be available at 5:30; lecture begins at 6

Co-sponsored by:Boston University’s Institute for Philosophy and Religion, Muslim Studies Program, MAP Alliance, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program