Elsie de R. and Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
JD candidate at Penn State Dickinson Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
AMA J Ethics. 2024 Aug 1;26(8):E655-664. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.655.
The medical-legal partnership (MLP) and reproductive justice (RJ) movements both seek to solve complex problems, serve diverse populations with intersectional challenges, and resolve community conditions that impact people's ability to reach their highest health potential. Yet MLPs have been overlooked as a strategy to advance reproductive health and justice. MLP has distinct advantages for advancing RJ, and many MLPs might already be doing RJ work without referring to it by name. By intentionally adopting an RJ strategy and explicitly addressing the unmet social and legal needs that limit people's ability to plan their reproductive futures, MLPs can better serve their clients and contribute to the movement to combat reproductive oppression.
医学-法律伙伴关系（MLP）和生殖正义（RJ）运动都试图解决复杂的问题，为具有交叉挑战的不同人群服务，并解决影响人们实现最佳健康潜力的社区条件。然而，MLP 作为推进生殖健康和正义的策略却被忽视了。MLP 对推进 RJ 具有明显的优势，许多 MLP 可能已经在从事 RJ 工作，而没有明确提及这一名称。通过有意采用 RJ 策略，并明确解决限制人们规划生殖未来能力的未满足的社会和法律需求，MLP 可以更好地为客户服务，并为打击生殖压迫的运动做出贡献。
