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IU McKinney Professor Jennifer Drobac talked with WISH TV about the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. The ruling “completely unraveled the whole definition of what liberty means,” she said in the interview. “In particular today, women no longer have a liberty interest in the control of their own bodies if the state has a competing interest.”

For Indiana, it means the right to abortion and medical care is not guaranteed for women, Professor Drobac said, where it is predicted that Indiana will in some way outlaw abortion when the General Assembly meets in a special session July 6. “This is pretty catastrophic and life changing for a lot of people,” she said.

Professor Drobac is a widely known expert in sexual harassment law. She is an author of the textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases and Practice, recently published by Carolina Academic Press. She co-authored the book with Professor Carrie N. Baker of Smith College and Professor Rigel C. Oliveri of the University of Missouri School of Law.  Professor Drobac is at work on her next book, The Myth of Consent, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. That work will explore the neuroscience of adult decision making and how the science should influence law reform, particularly the law of consent. She is a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law.