WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sexual Coercion, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights

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

Document Summary

Objective: reproductive rights, sexual and reproductive health; hiv/aid , maternal issues, stis, reproductive tech & practices. Right to determine the nature and size of your family/ies. Right to access medical care for reproductive health. Right to information, education, and service for family planning. Right to control and decide freely and responsibility, on matter related to sexual orientation and sexual and reproductive health on a manner that is free of coercion, discrimination or violence. Woman con not always control the conditions under which they become pregnant or raise their families due to: socialization. Social pressure, or customs: lack of information, inadequate access to or unsafe contraceptive technologies, poverty or enforced economic dependence, sexual coercion or violence, restrictive laws, economic circumstances or lack adequate day care. For woman aged 15-44 years hiv/aids is the leading causes of death world wide. Adolescence girl and young woman 15-24 are twice as likely to be at risk of.