Reproductive Justice

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/9/2022
  

  The Misuse of History in 2021 Documentary "The Business of Birth Control"

  by Donna J. Drucker

  The documentary combines an endorsement of conspiratorial suspicion of pharmaceutical contraception and scientifically questionable fertility management under the guise of "empowerment" with a dose of financial conflict of interest thrown in. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/8/2022
  

  Barbara Smith on Reproductive Freedom Organizing

  by Joseph R. Fitzgerald

  As an activist with the Combahee River Collective and after, Barbara Smith helped define the attention to the relationships among racism, sexism and social class associated with the term "intersectionality." Here, she discusses the past and future of reproductive justice with her biographer.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/2022
  

  A Survivor of Forced Sterilization Fears its Return as a Consequence of Overturning Roe

  Without a recognized privacy right to reproductive freedom, legal precedents like the Buck v. Bell decision could allow states to resume forcibly sterilizing women they deem unfit for motherhood. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/6/2022
  

  Abortion Is Not Just About Privacy; It's About Freedom

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  "If women cannot dictate this most basic aspect of their being, then the Supreme Court has effectively consigned them to a distinctly secondary tier of citizenship."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/29/2022
  

  Black Women Activists Have Long Connected Abortion Rights to Broader Issues of Freedom and Justice

  by SaraEllen Strongman

  Black women activists have been more likely than their white counterparts to place abortion rights in the broader context of reproductive justice: the freedom to have or not have children on one's own terms without the coercive pressure of political or economic power.