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Elizabeth Sepper, Professor of Law, Washington University St. Louis School of Law, presented "Religion and Reproductive Health in a Consolidating Healthcare Market" on Thursday, October 4 for the Hall Center for Law and Health Grand Rounds lecture series at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Professor Sepper is a health law scholar whose work explores the interaction of morality, professional ethics, and law in health care and insurance. She has written extensively on conscientious refusals to provide reproductive and end-of-life healthcare and on conflicts over religious liberty and insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage mandate.

In her Grand Rounds lecture at IU McKinney, Professor Sepper noted the trend toward the many church-affiliated hospital systems acquiring hospitals and offering healthcare limited by religious doctrine, as well as  hospitals that continue to follow those restrictions, especially in reproductive and end-of-life care, even after mergers or acquisitions that severed ties from religious organizations.

The next Grand Rounds lecture is Thursday, November 9, when Leo Beletsky, Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences, Northeastern University School of Law, will present a lecture, "Murder by Overdose: Deploying Punishment as an Antidote to the Overdose Crisis."

Professor Beletsky has a joint appointment at the School of Law and Bouvé School of Health Sciences, where he is also a faculty scholar with the Institute on Urban Health Research. He is an interdisciplinary social epidemiologist whose interest is in the role of law and law enforcement as structural determinants of health. His domestic and international projects span drug policy, prevention of HIV and other infectious diseases, human rights, law enforcement practice, and evidence-based healthcare.

Pictured above: Professor Sepper with Nicolas P. Terry, Hall Render Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health.

All Grand Rounds events are free and provide 1.0 hour of Indiana CLE credit, but registration is required.