WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Health, Wgst

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Aalya Ahmad

Document Summary

Reproductive justice: a movement-building framework that identifies how reproductive oppression is the result of the intersections of multiple oppressions and is inherently connected to the struggle for social justice and human rights. A woman"s societal institutions, environment, economics, and culture affect her reproductive life. Reproductive justice = the complete physical, mental, spiritual, political, social, and economic well-being of women and girls, based on the full achievement and protection of women"s human rights . The right to have children decide if and when she will have a baby and the conditions under which she will give birth. The right to not have children decide if she will not have a baby and her options for preventing or ending a pregnancy. The right to parent the children we have parent the children she already has with the necessary social supports in safe environments and healthy communities, and without fear of violence from individuals or the gov"t.