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Motherhood and the struggle for reproductive justice
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Motherhood and the struggle for reproductive justice

Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, pp.510-519
Routledge, 1
2020
DOI: 10.4324/9781315167848-42

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Abstract

The capacity for all people to decide whether, when, and with whom to create a family in safety and dignity hinges on reproductive justice. As a critical framework and organizing strategy, reproductive justice illuminates structures that shape various experiences of pregnancy and parenting and challenges the reproductive rights movement to take a broader, more intersectional view of its aims and scope. This entry provides an overview of the history of reproductive justice, its central tenets and principles, and the defining challenges and horizons of possibility for the early twenty-first century. The capacity for all people to decide whether, when, and with whom to create a family in safety and dignity hinges on reproductive justice. The concept of reproductive justice emerges from the lives and experiences of women of color, and, more specifically, from the organizing and theorizing of black women in the United States. While the term reproductive justice was not coined until 1994, its guiding tenets are evident in early struggles of black, indigenous, and Latinx feminists against reproductive oppression and subsequent challenges to pro-choice frameworks of privacy and individualism. Reproductive justice is widely understood to mean the right to determine whether, when, and with whom one creates family, in safety and with dignity. It centers three values: “the right not to have a child; the right to have a child; and the right to parent children in safe and healthy environments”.
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