The Human Right To Reproductive Justice: A Feminist Theo-Ethical Perspective

Mandrágora ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
M.E. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Human Right

scholarly journals Review of Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice by Zakiya Luna (New York University Press)

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Djuna Hallsworth
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
New York University ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

Zakiya Luna’s rich study combines comprehensive discourse analysis of political rhetoric and archival documents with her own ethnographic experiences within the reproductive justice movement. This book is an entry point into this often-marginalized arena, presenting a unique perspective informed by years of participant observation and thorough research which has produced additional projects, attesting to Luna’s expertise in this field of study. As a woman of color, Luna’s work is symbolically significant, and her intersectional lens renders this study broadly applicable to scholars of law, sociology, and gender studies, to policymakers and activists, and, indeed, to all women, who the reproductive justice movement indirectly or directly impacts. In tracing the way that reproductive justice has been framed as a “human right,” Luna addresses the potential for the human rights discourse to deliver on its intrinsic promise to secure freedom and equity for all.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-202
Author(s):  
Patricia Zavella
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

This chapter reflects on how the movement for reproductive justice addresses the increased polarization of politics around immigration and reproductive rights in the wake of the election of President Trump. It argues that women of color in the movement for reproductive justice have a history of crafting a politics of inclusion that aims to empower those who are marginalized by intersecting systems of power, with a radical vision of citizenship. These activists insist that poor women of color have the human right to access to health care with dignity as well as the right to healthy lives and wellness.

scholarly journals Cancer: a perspective of human dignity and informed consent from ethics and justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Dora E. García-González ◽  
Xenia Anaid Rueda-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Moral Relevance ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Personal Dignity

This article attempts to reflect on the importance of thinking in general about illness and about cancer, from an ethical perspective. This approach reveals the central role of personal dignity and the moral relevance that supports the reasons for respecting people. The ethical values that sustain the practice of medicine must aim at uplifting this dignity and seeking situations of justice, since living in a community expresses intersubjectivity that cannot be truncated by illnesses like cancer. Therefore, situations involving poverty cannot justify the lack of health care, and if such lacks occur, they run counter to ethical awareness in the deepest sense and destroy intersubjectivity. As a result, cancer is suffered as a vital experience, in a framework of lives that are lived and are not simply objects of study; those stricken with cancer are individuals who are denied the human right to health, and undergo the elimination of their dignity, the cancelation of justice, and a death sentence. Society is part of these actions and at the same time, suffers from the disappearance of hope.In this sense, the process of informed consent is used as a tool that encourages dialog and understanding between doctors and patients during proper treatment, on a shared path.

The Movement for Reproductive Justice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Zavella
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Grassroots Organizing ◽  
Or Methodology ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right

Working on behalf of women of color, the movement for reproductive justice incorporates intersectionality and human rights to advocate for women’s right to bear children free from coercion or abuse, terminate their pregnancies without obstacles or judgment, and raise their children in healthy environments as well as the right to bodily autonomy and gender self-identification. The movement for reproductive justice takes health advocacy further by pushing for women’s human right to access health care with dignity and to express their full selves, including their spiritual beliefs, as well as policies that address social inequalities and lead to greater wellness in communities of color. The evidence is drawn from ethnographic research with thirteen organizations located throughout the United States. The overall argument is that the organizations discussed here provide a compelling model for negotiating across differences within constituencies. This movement has built a repertoire of “ready-to-work skills” or methodology that includes cross-sector coalition building, storytelling in safer spaces, and strengths-based messaging. In the ongoing political clashes in which the war on women’s reproductive rights and targeting of immigrants seem particularly egregious and there are widespread questions about whether “the resistance” can maintain its cohesion, the movement for reproductive justice offers a model for multiscalar politics in opposition to conservative agendas and the disparagement of specific social categories. Using grassroots organizing, culture shift work, and policy advocacy, this movement also offers visions of the strength, resiliency, and dignity of people of color.

Reproduction, Birth Control, and Motherhood in the United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rickie Solinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Population Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reproductive Value ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Primary Power ◽  
The Right

The history of reproductive politics in the United States incorporates several centuries of struggle and resistance and virtually no periods of quiescence. The state and other institutions have frequently clashed within and against each other and with girls and women, over who has primary power to govern female sexuality, fertility, and maternity: institutions, or women themselves. These struggles have always been racialized. From the eighteenth century forward, authorities have promulgated laws and public policies embedding population-control aims, investing some groups with greater reproductive value than others. In the modern era, “choice” emerged as the mark of reproductive freedom, chiefly defined as the right to limit and terminate pregnancy. More recently, “reproductive justice” contends that all people have the human right to be a parent; to forgo parenting; and to access the resources required to exercise the first two rights with dignity and safety.

Collaborating across Difference

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-104
Author(s):  
Patricia Zavella
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Right To Health Care

This chapter responds to Kimberlé Crenshaw’s query, What are intersectionality’s “ready-to-work skills”? by focusing on two campaigns run by reproductive justice activists. One campaign is about the human right to health care in Texas and led eventually to the lawsuit Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, and the other is about the repeal of the Maximum Family Grant rule in California. The chapter argues that reproductive justice activists resist conservative forces and advance their own goals using strengths-based messaging, cross-sector collaboration, including support for one another, and strategic use of storytelling in the context of safer spaces.

Test Validation Without Measurement

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Lacot ◽  
Mohammad H. Afzali ◽  
Stéphane Vautier
Keyword(s):  
Test Data ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Test Validation ◽  
Clinical Tests ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Power Of Test ◽  
Memory Accuracy ◽  
Social Uses ◽  
Special Case

Abstract. Test validation based on usual statistical analyses is paradoxical, as, from a falsificationist perspective, they do not test that test data are ordinal measurements, and, from the ethical perspective, they do not justify the use of test scores. This paper (i) proposes some basic definitions, where measurement is a special case of scientific explanation; starting from the examples of memory accuracy and suicidality as scored by two widely used clinical tests/questionnaires. Moreover, it shows (ii) how to elicit the logic of the observable test events underlying the test scores, and (iii) how the measurability of the target theoretical quantities – memory accuracy and suicidality – can and should be tested at the respondent scale as opposed to the scale of aggregates of respondents. (iv) Criterion-related validity is revisited to stress that invoking the explanative power of test data should draw attention on counterexamples instead of statistical summarization. (v) Finally, it is argued that the justification of the use of test scores in specific settings should be part of the test validation task, because, as tests specialists, psychologists are responsible for proposing their tests for social uses.

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