Reproductive Justice

“All people deserve full autonomy over their sexuality, gender, work, and reproduction. Reproductive justice—a framework created by activist Women of Color—addresses reproductive health through the lenses of race, gender, class, ability, nationality, orientation, socioeconomic status, legal status, and environment. Reproductive justice goes beyond reproductive rights by focusing on access to care, social contexts of health, and intersectional well-being outcomes. It includes the rights to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent children in safe, accessible, healthy, sustainable communities. Reproductive justice is achieved when marginalized people—especially women, girls, and people who are LGBTQ+, disabled, low-income, undocumented, and/or of color—are able to freely and equitably exercise these rights…”

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