Human Rights in Hospitals: an End to Routine Shackling.

Medical students (NSB, NM, JDW) spearheaded revision of the policy and clinical practice for shackling incarcerated patients at Boston Medical Center (BMC), the largest safety net hospital in New England. In American hospitals, routine shackling of incarcerated patients with metal restraints is widespread-except for perinatal patients-regardless of consciousness, mobility, illness severity, or age. The modified policy includes individualized assessments and allows incarcerated patients to be unshackled if they meet defined criteria.

(Re)criminalizing Abortion: Returning to the Political with Stories.

Abortion stories have always played a powerful role in advancing women's rights. In the abortion sphere particularly, the personal is political. Following the Court's reversal of , abortion politics, and abortion storytelling, take on an even deeper political role in challenging the bloodless judicial language of with the lived experience of women.