WS290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reproductive Justice, Infant Mortality, Reproductive Health
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Affordable and acceptable family planning and the right to regulate your own fertility and sex-ed. The right of young people to be involved. (doesn"t matter who you are, you have the right to certain things because you"re a human being) Right to be viewed as a person before the law. No one to be subject to torture. Right to not be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of culture. Right to not be discriminated against and to decide own political stance. Reproductive justice started as a mainstream (white women) justice movement. Worked to eliminate health disparities between black and other women (ie. breast cancer, infant mortality, high school education) To ensure black women had access to health insurance. Broaden scope of conversation beyond reproductive bodies, birth control. The restoration and seeking of treaty rights. Eliminating indian mascots and combating commercialization of indian culture. End the adoption of indian children by non-indian. End nuclear mining and storage on indian land.
