#  Viterna quoted in the LA Times about the role of problematic evidence in condemning women who miscarry, 06/23/2022. 

 



“[An Unreliable 400-year-old Test is Sending Mothers to Prison for Killing their Newborns](https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-06-23/newborns-were-found-dead-a-faulty-forensic-test-sent-their-mothers-to-prison),” *Los Angeles Times* article by Leila Miller, 06/23/3022, background and quotes. 

 

##  Viterna in the News 

 



  [### JOCELYN VITERNA

 ](/jocelyn-viterna) Jocelyn Viterna is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her current research examines how the passage of anti-abortion legislation in El Salvador transformed the Salvadoran legal, judicial, and medical systems, with powerful and negative... 

 

 

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##  **JOCELYN VITERNA** 

###  Professor of Sociology, Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Harvard University



 

  ![Viterna headshot 2023](/sites/g/files/omnuum1826/files/viterna/files/head_shot_jan_2023_0.jpeg)

 



 

  

 

 

 

 

##  Contact Prof. Viterna 

 [jviterna@wjh.harvard.edu](mailto:///jviterna@wjh.harvard.edu)

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