Since Roe versus Wade was overturned in the USA in 2022, there’s been increasing concern regarding how technologies like period tracking apps might be used in abortion court cases. We know these apps are not reliable, but there is concern that they might be used as evidence anyway. Surprisingly, Dr. Charlotte Sabourin, Jill’s guest today, will show that to see how and why unreliable technology like fertility tracking apps might be used, we should turn to history. Specifically, 18th century German laws and technologies regarding infanticide. And, brace yourself, listener, this means we need to talk about Immanuel Kant!
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For more on Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, go here:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/
For more information about Charles Mills’ discussion of Kant, go here:
https://www.decolonialitylondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kants-Untermenschen.pdf
For more on the Chantal Daigle v. Jean-Guy Tremblay court case in Canada, go here:
https://www.scc-csc.ca/cases-dossiers/search-recherche/21553/
For more on Adrienne Rich’s views on motherhood, check out this book:
https://wwnorton.com/books/Of-Woman-Born/
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