Emily Galpern
Emily Galpern is a consultant focusing on the intersection of reproductive justice and human biotechnologies. She specializes in policy advocacy, organizational capacity building, and education about assisted reproductive technologies and their impact on the health and rights of women and pregnant people. Emily partners with organizations and scholars in the US and internationally in the fields of reproductive rights and justice, racial justice, disability rights, LGBTQ rights, and Indigenous sovereignty to recognize how the legacies of oppression and eugenics, as well as contemporary forms of injustice, affect people’s lives and advocate together for better policies and practices. Emily has worked as a consultant and non-profit worker for more than 20 years, fighting reproductive oppression and building bridges between social justice movements.
Biopolitical Times
Five years ago today, then-Governor Jerry Brown signed into law anti-eugenic legislation prohibiting sterilization in state prisons. This bill, sponsored...
The Child-Parent Security Act, which would have legalized commercial surrogacy in New York, did not make it out of...
Today, CGS officially relaunched a project called Surrogacy360.
It’s an important resource for several reasons. The website helps users...