“I do abortions because I am a Christian,” Dr. Willie Parker stated in a 2014 interview with Esquire magazine. Join Law Students for Reproductive Justice for a lunch talk with Dr. Parker, one of the two doctors who travel to Jackson, Mississippi, to provide abortion services at the Pink House, the last remaining clinic in the state. Dr. Parker will discuss his work as a reproductive justice advocate, as well as his ability to reconcile this work with his Christian faith. Lunch from Chicago Curry House will be served!

Dr. Parker holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Berea College in Kentucky, an M.D. from the University of Iowa, an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health, and an M.Sc. in Health Services Research from the University of Michigan. Having served as the medical director of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii, and a fellow in family planning at the University of Michigan, he now holds a faculty position at the Northwestern Medical School.