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NYCLA CLE I NSTITUTE MOVIE SCREENING AND DISCUSSION AFTER TILLER: ABORTION ACCESS IN A SHIFTING LEGAL LANDSCAPE; UNDERSTANDING THE PROVIDER'S EXPERIENCE Prepared in connection with a Continuing Legal Education course presented at New York County Lawyers Association, 14 Vesey Street, New York, NY scheduled for April 15, 2015 Program Co-sponsors: NYCLA's Women in Law Committee, Health Law Committee, Civil Right Committee Guest Panelists: Lana Wilson, Director, After Tiller; Dr. Sarah Miller, Planned Parenthood NYC Moderators and Program Chairs: Caroline Fuchs and Jamie Sinclair, Co-chairs, NYCLA's Women in Law Committee This course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board for a maximum of 2.5 Transitional and Non-Transitional credit hours; 1 Ethics; 1.5 Professional Practice. This program has been approved by the Board of Continuing Legal education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2.5 hours of total CLE credits. Of these, 1 qualify as hours of credit for ethics/professionalism, and 0 qualify as hours of credit toward certification in civil trial law, criminal law, workers compensation law and/or matrimonial law. ACCREDITED PROVIDER STATUS: NYCLA s CLE Institute is currently certified as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education in the States of New York and New Jersey.
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New York County Lawyers Association Continuing Legal Education Institute 14 Vesey Street, New York, N.Y. 10007 (212) 267-6646 Movie Screening and Discussion -- After Tiller: Abortion Access in a Shifting Legal Landscape; Understanding the Provider's Experience Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 6:00 PM-8:15 PM Guest Panelists: Lana Wilson, Director, After Tiller; Dr. Sarah Miller, Planned Parenthood NYC Moderators and Program Chairs: Caroline Fuchs and Jamie Sinclair, Co-chairs, NYCLA's Women in Law Committee Program Co-sponsors: NYCLA's Women in Law Committee, Health Law Committee, Civil Right Committee 5:30 PM 6:00 PM Registration AGENDA 6:00 PM 7:30 PM Movie Screening: After Tiller 7:30 PM 8:15 PM Panel Discussion: Abortion Access in a Shifting Legal Landscape
Kansas governor signs nation s first ban on common 2nd-trimester abortion procedure POSTED 7:46 PM, APRIL 7, 2015, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CNN WIRE Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, center, signs bill banning abortion procedure. (Photo: CNN) TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback signed legislation Tuesday making Kansas the first state to ban a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus. Brownback signed the measure Tuesday in a private ceremony at the governor s residence. A photo posted by his office on Twitter shows him flanked by anti-abortion leaders and large photos of fetuses. The new law, which takes effect July 1, bans the dilation and evacuation procedure, and redefines the method as dismemberment abortion. The method is commonly used in second-trimester abortions nationwide and in about 9 percent of the abortions in Kansas. Abortion-rights supporters say the method is sometimes the safest for a woman terminating her pregnancy. The National Right to Life Committee drafted the measure. Similar measures are being considered in other states. The law does not spell out a specific time frame that limits when an abortion can occur, but it bans the dilation and evacuation abortion procedure commonly used during the second trimester of pregnancy. The law allows for the procedure if necessary to protect the life or health of the mother, according to a statement on Brownback s website. On Twitter, Brownback, a Republican, said he was proud to sign a law protecting life at its most vulnerable stage.
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Kansas and Mid-Missouri sharply criticized the move, which it described as the latest in a series of extreme political measures aimed at denying women access to health care and at undermining their decision-making ability. Kansas is now not only the sole state with this atrocious law; it also now has more restrictions on abortion than any state in the U.S., the advocacy group said in a Facebook post. Both sides appear to be prepared to take their battle over such measures to other states and to court. Carol Tobias, the president of National Right to Life, said in a statement that the Kansas law was the first of what her organization hopes will be many state laws. This law has the power to transform the landscape of abortion policy in the United States, she said. Julie Burkhart, CEO of Wichita-based South Wind Women s Center, said on Twitter that the signing of the law marked a sad day for Kansas and the United States. This law puts women at risk and ties doctors hands, she said. We ll continue to fight!
Sarah Miller, M.D., M.P.H. is a family doctor and family planning specialist who provides primary care and family planning services throughout New York City. She is a proud contract physician with PPNYC (Planned Parenthood of New York City), and is also affiliated with the Institute for Family Health and Mt Sinai Medical Center. In these settings, she teaches medical professionals procedural care and ways to integrate full spectrum family planning services into the primary care setting. She is a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health. Her current passion is working to enhance male involvement in family planning. Lana Wilson is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York. Her first film, After Tiller, went inside the lives of the four most-targeted abortion providers in the country, and received extraordinary critical and popular acclaim for providing a moving and complex look at one of the most incendiary issues of our time. The film premiered in competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it was ranked #1 in the Indiewire Critic s Poll for Best Documentary. After Tiller went on to be nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, four Cinema Eye Honors (for Outstanding Feature, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Production, and Outstanding Debut), a Satellite Award, and the Ridenhour Prize. After Tiller was released in theaters in over 50 cities in North America and the UK by Oscilloscope Laboratories and November Films. The film was named one of the five best documentaries of the year by the National Board of Review, and featured in Best of 2013 lists in the LA Times, Village Voice, Indiewire, Artforum, and more. Flavorwire recently named it one of the 50 Best Documentaries of All Time. It has played at dozens of festivals around the world, where it won multiple awards including the Documentary Jury Prize at the Sarasota Film Festival and the Human Rights Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival. In 2014 it was broadcast on the acclaimed PBS documentary series POV. Wilson was previously the Film and Dance Curator at Performa, the New York biennial of new visual art performance, where she produced major performances by artists including Guy Maddin, Boris Charmatz, L Encyclopédie de la Parole, Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido, Pete Drungle, and Eleanor Bauer. She also organized several film retrospectives, including Not Funny: Stand-Up Comedy and Visual Art, The Polyexpressive Symphony: Futurism on Film, and Dance After Choreography. Wilson has given talks at a range of contemporary art and film institutions, including the Jerusalem International Film Festival, CPH: PIX (Copenhagen), Tanzquartier (Vienna), and Wesleyan University. She also curated the film series for the exhibition Performance Now at Wesleyan University, co-curated and produced the omnibus film Futurist Life Redux (2009), and edited the book Performa 09: Back to Futurism (2011). Wilson has been a featured guest on MSNBC, Huffington Post Live, Democracy Now, NPR s The Takeaway, WNYC s The Leonard Lopate Show, and many other programs. With After Tiller co-director Martha Shane, she was the recipient of NARAL Pro-Choice America s 2014 Champion of Choice Award. Wilson s work has been supported by the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Educational Foundation of America, Chicken & Egg Pictures, the International Documentary Association, Candescent Films, Women in Film, and the New York State Council on the Arts, among other institutions. She holds a BA in Film Studies and Dance from Wesleyan University, where she graduated with honors. Caroline Fuchs is Co-chair of NYCLA s Women in Law Committee. She is a Counselor at Planned Parenthood New York City, Inc. Previously she was a legal consultant at Lisa Weinberg, Asylum Attorney, a legal intern at Immigration Justie Clinic and CONNECT Inc. and a Health Planning Analysis at Clinton Health Access Initiative. She received a BA from Clark University in International Development as well as a MPA in Global Agency Operations. She received a JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Jamie Sinclair is Co-Chair of NYCLA s Women in Law Committee. She is a New York City based attorney at Goldstein, Rikon, Rikon & Houghton, P.C, focusing her practice in eminent
domain litigation. Ms. Sinclair graduated magna cum laude from New York Law School, where she was a Features Editor on the New York Law School Law Review and she received her B.A. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).