Reproductive rights and disability rights through an intersectional analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipika Jain ◽  
Shampa Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Intersectional Analysis

MOVEMENT INTERSECTIONALITY

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Roberts ◽  
Sujatha Jesudason
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Intersecting Identities ◽  
Genetic Technologies ◽  
Movement Mobilization ◽  
Building Level

AbstractIntersectional analysis need not focus solely on differences within or between identity-based groups. Using intersectionality for cross movement mobilization reveals that, contrary to criticism for being divisive, attention to intersecting identities has the potential to create solidarity and cohesion. In this article, we elaborate this argument with a case study of the intersection of race, gender, and disability in genetic technologies as well as in organizing to promote a social justice approach to the use of these technologies. We show how organizing based on an intersectional analysis can help forge alliances between reproductive justice, racial justice, women's rights, and disability rights activists to develop strategies to address reproductive genetic technologies. We use the work of Generations Ahead to illuminate how intersectionality applied at the movement-building level can identify genuine common ground, create authentic alliances, and more effectively advocate for shared policy priorities.

scholarly journals Selective Abortion as Moral Failure? Revaluation of the Feminist Case for Reproductive Rights in a Disability Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Genetic Diagnosis ◽  
Genetic Selection ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Reproductive Freedom ◽  
Moral Failure ◽  
Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis ◽  
Disability Stigma ◽  
The Right

<p>Of feminism and disability theory's many overlapping concerns, few have received as much attention as prenatal genetic diagnosis and selective abortion. While the attention to how genetic selection reinforces disability stigma is important, much of this writing has failed to present the feminist case for the right to unrestricted abortion. This oversight has led to an articulation of the disability critique of selective abortion that threatens the very claims to reproductive freedom and bodily self-determination that undergird disability politics as well. This article rearticulates the feminist case for unrestricted reproductive rights in order to challenge the current framing of prenatal genetic diagnosis as an ethical failure and to present the opportunity to refigure reproductive rights as disability rights.</p>

Producing Reproductive Rights

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udi Sommer ◽  
Aliza Forman-Rabinovici
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights

Uterine Prolapse in Madhesh: Gender, Reproductive Rights and Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Mukesh Kumar Mishra ◽  
◽  
Tej Prasada Adhikari ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Uterine Prolapse

Ensuring Reproductive Rights of Women in Nepal: Law and Praxis

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
D. N. Parajuli
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health Rights

 Reproductive rights are fundamental rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world, but have a commonality about the protection, preservation and promotion of a woman‘s reproductive health rights. Reproductive rights include the right to autonomy and self-determination , the right of everyone to make free and informed decisions and have full control over their body, sexuality, health, relationships, and if, when and with whom to partner, marry and have children , without any form of discrimination, stigma, coercion or violence. The access and availability of reproductive health services are limited due to geography and other issues, non-availability and refusal of reproductive health services may lead to serious consequences. The State need to ensure accessibility, availability, safe and quality reproductive health services and address the lifecycle needs of women and girls and provide access of every young women and girls to comprehensive sexuality education based on their evolving capacity as their human rights, through its inclusion and proper implementation in school curriculum, community-based awareness program and youth led mass media. It is necessary for strengthening compliance, in a time-bound manner, with international human rights standards that Nepal has ratified that protect, promote, and fulfill the basic human rights and reproductive health rights in Nepal and also need to review standards and conventions that Nepal has had reservations about or those that have been poorly implemented in the country.

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