The social movement for reproductive justice: Emergence, intersectional strategies, and theory building

Daniel, Meghan

doi:10.1111/soc4.12907

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“…The majority of abortion care providers are White and serve largely non-White, immigrant, low-income, and non-English speaking populations ( 46 , 47 ). This is a result of the systematic exclusion of people of color from the medical profession and results in the exclusion and stigmatization of patients ( 48 ). Nearly half of all abortions obtained in the US are by those whose incomes are below the federal poverty level ( 46 ).…”

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The impact of hostile abortion legislation on the United States maternal mortality crisis: a call for increased abortion education

Kheyfets,

Dhaurali,

Feyock

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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The growing restrictive abortion policies nationwide and the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization place increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States. These restrictions disproportionately affect low-income people of color, immigrants, and non-English speakers, and have the potential to exacerbate already existing racial inequities in maternal and neonatal outcomes. The United States is facing a Black maternal health crisis where Black birthing people are more than twice as likely to experience maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity compared to White birthing people. Restrictions creating geographic, transportation, and financial barriers to obtaining an abortion can result in increased rates of maternal death and adverse outcomes across all groups but especially among Black birthing people. Restrictive abortion laws in certain states will decrease already limited training opportunities in abortion care for medical professionals, despite the existing abortion provider shortage. There is an immediate need for federal legislation codifying broad abortion care access into law and expanding access to abortion training across medical education. This commentary explores the impact of restrictive abortion laws on the Black maternal health crisis through multiple pathways in a logic model. By identifying current barriers to abortion education in medical school and residency, we created a list of action items to expand abortion education and access.

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Section: Provider Concordancementioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of hostile abortion legislation on the United States maternal mortality crisis: a call for increased abortion education

Kheyfets,

Dhaurali,

Feyock

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Reproductive justice has been brought forward as a powerful tool to analyze and change reproductive injustices (Ross, 2017). Based on the theoretical foundations of intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1991; Price, 2011), reproductive justice is simultaneously an activist movement and theoretical framework that centres vulnerable women’s reproductive realities (Daniel, 2021). It is fruitful for exploring ‘how reproductive lives and experiences are contoured by socio-political complexities and crisscrossing power dynamics that proceed along multiple interconnected axes of difference’ (Morison, 2023: 175).…”

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confidence: 99%

‘They all of a sudden became new people’: Using reproductive justice to explore narratives of hormonal contraceptive experience in Sweden

Zettermark

2024

European Journal of Women's Studies

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This study explores how Swedish women narrate experiences of hormonal contraceptives through utilizing the frameworks of biomedicalization and reproductive justice, adding a social justice perspective previously lacking. Ten in-depth interviews were conducted with women who had experience of using hormonal contraception. Political narrative analysis illuminated how these women moved narratively both chronologically, from the teenage years to adulthood, and through social positioning, in their contraceptive stories. Two different, often conflicting, discourses of hormonal contraceptives emerged, which the women constantly negotiated. These can be described as (1) a biomedical interpretative prerogative, promoting hormonal methods as an easy fit for everyone, and negating the diverse lived experiences of women, and (2) a simplified critical media and online discourse, painting hormonal methods as an enemy to female health. From a reproductive justice standpoint, these stories illuminate that age is a relevant intersectional location, and even privileged women in a country known for its ‘gender equality agenda’ can experience subtle yet very real, reproductive coercion, when agency becomes constrained to choosing hormonal contraceptives within a dominant biomedical script. Even though critique of the mechanistic prescription of hormonal contraception is rather ubiquitous, the opposition in these narratives does not take the form of rejection of biomedical knowledge, rather the biomedical paradigm is internalized and incorporated into the embodied knowledge. This study shows that upstream factors such as gendered social injustices, reproductive norms, and a biomedical expansion are intricately interwoven with embodied experience of hormonal contraceptive use. It is important to acknowledge that distinct lived experiences of mood or personality change in women using hormonal contraceptives are contextual and dependent on intersectional location. I propose no simple panacea, but when a state-sanctioned biomedical prerogative puts all emphasis on individual reproductive planning behaviour, it obscures structural inequalities and narrows imaginable life trajectories.

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“…They perpetuated the racist assumptions and mandates of colonialism: that Indigenous People and people of African descent were subhuman or inferior to European colonizers. The history of colonialism and the oppression of slaves has included the horrific violence on the bodily autonomy of Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color (BIWoC), abuses that unfortunately still prevail today (M. Daniel, 2021). Forced sterilization, among other reproductive injustices, by White dominant structures of power over BIWoC has been part of an intentional strategy to impose dominant views about the desirable race and to sustain systems of oppression on BIWoC (Treisman, 2020; Wilkerson, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Reproductive justice for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color: Uprooting race and colonialism

Suárez-Balcázar

Buckingham

Rusch³

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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Historically, atrocities against Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color's (BIWoC) reproductive rights have been committed and continue to take place in contemporary society. The atrocities against BIWoC have been fueled by White supremacy ideology of the “desirable race” and colonial views toward controlling poverty and population growth, particularly that of “undesirable” races and ethnicities. Grounded in Critical Race Theory, this paper aims to provide a critical analysis of historical and contemporary violations of BIWoC reproductive rights; discuss interventions based on empowerment and advocacy principles designed to promote women's reproductive justice; and discuss implications for future research, action, and policy from the lenses of Critical Race Theory and Community Psychology. This paper contributes to the special issue by critically analyzing historical and contemporary racism and colonialism against BIWoC, discussing implications for future research and practice, and making policy recommendations.

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The social movement for reproductive justice: Emergence, intersectional strategies, and theory building

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

The impact of hostile abortion legislation on the United States maternal mortality crisis: a call for increased abortion education

The impact of hostile abortion legislation on the United States maternal mortality crisis: a call for increased abortion education

‘They all of a sudden became new people’: Using reproductive justice to explore narratives of hormonal contraceptive experience in Sweden

Reproductive justice for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color: Uprooting race and colonialism

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