Reproductive Justice

 

Reproductive justice is an aggregation of reproductive rights and social justice. It is an intersectional activist concept founded in the 1990s by Black women in the USA. Reproductive justice includes not only abortion rights, but also population policy, contraceptive policy, family and role models, reproductive technologies, birth control and much more.Reproductive rights are often not enough.

In order to achieve reproductive justice, more is needed than self-determination rights on paper. That is what we intend to achieve with this focus.

Factsheets

Podcasts

Women fight for reproductive rights | Our Voices, Our Choices

Women and girls just want to have fundamental human rights! That’s what we hear in this podcast. Yet many states restrict their reproductive rights and regulate abortion alongside murder in their criminal codes.

Das globale Geschäft mit der Leihmutterschaft (2/6) | Our Voices, Our Choices

Leihmutterschaft ist kompliziert: Was ist mit dem gerechtfertigten Wunsch vieler Paare auf ein Kind? Welchen emotionalen und körperlichen Belastungen sind die Leihmütter ausgesetzt? Welchen emotionalen und finanziellen die Wunscheltern? Wie sieht die rechtliche Situation aus: Wer ist die legale Mutter des Kindes? Welche Staatsbürgerschaft hat es dann?

Kampf für sichere und legale Abtreibungen (Bonus) | Our Voices, Our Choices

Abtreibungen sind in Deutschland illegal. Auch wenn sie unter gewissen Bedingungen und innerhalb der ersten zwölf Wochen straffrei bleiben, bleibt das Stigma einer Straftat. Es ist eine Gesetzgebung, die Patient*innen und Ärzt*innen kriminalisiert - mit negativen Folgen für die medizinische Versorgung.

Reproductive rights around the world

Reproduktive Gerechtigkeit Illustration

Population policy under the guise of protecting life – the history of Section 218

Section 218 has been a topic of intense political debate ever since it was first incorporated in the Criminal Code of the German Empire on 15 May 1871. It has always been one of the most controversial paragraphs in German law, both legally and socially. In 1995, a compromise solution was found, but since then nothing more has changed. To find out why that is so, and work out what can be done about it, it’s worth taking a look back at the history of Section 218.

“A declaration of war”. Poland introduces almost complete abortion ban

Commentary
“The hell of women is in full swing” is is one of the most pertinent comments on the decision of the governmentally controlled Polish Constitutional Court to further restrict the anyway very limited public access of women to abortions in Poland. Although the measure had been part of the public discourse for years, the timing for its implementation comes partly as a surprise. What does this tell us about the further prospects for the rule of the Law and Justice party?
By Gert Röhrborn

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