Interpreting Abortion: screening of “Severina’s Story” and panel discussion

Severina had her destiny changed by a Supreme Court decision. Four months pregnant with an anencephalic fetus, she was in the hospital at the very moment the Supreme Court of Brazil canceled the authorization to terminate the pregnancy. Severina spent three months going from courts to hospitals and back to courts. This documentary tells the story of the long “day after” that the judges of the Supreme Court never witnessed.

Film directed by Debora Diniz.

Screening will be followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion with:

Debora Diniz, Documentary Filmmaker & Professor of Bioethics, Universidade de Brasília and FIOCRUZ
Luis Roberto Barroso, Constitutional lawyer & Professor of Law, State University of Rio de Janeiro
Jeannie Suk, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Carole Vance, Anthropology and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University

Moderated by: Lisa Kelly, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School

Date: Tuesday, November 8th
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Austin East, Harvard Law School, Cambridge
Contact: Lisa Kelly, lkelly@sjd.law.harvard.edu
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Dinner will be served.

This event is co-sponsored by: the DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program; the Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Fund; Harvard Women’s Law Association; Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice