Recommended Strategies for Teaching Reproductive Health and Justice in a Post-Dobbs World

Amid years of political division over reproductive rights and the elimination of the constitutional right to abortion, it is crucial to the well-being of our students that we teach accurate, comprehensive, and research-based information about the full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health—topics that are both deeply relevant to our students’ personal lives and essential knowledge for the next generation of public health scholars and practitioners. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , sexual and reproductive health topics have become more urgent and important than ever. Here, I offer four strategies I used to teach reproductive health and justice to my undergraduate students after the Dobbs ruling, as they sought to make sense of new healthcare restrictions and the increasing climate of fear among healthcare providers.