FEMST 60 Chapter 5: week 5 gauchospace
Document Summary
Low income / colored / minority women often lack many safe options for birth control or abortions -- compared to middle class white women who can afford to choose the safest, easiest option. Often mainstream fight works for rights to abortion etc but not justice for the many who are forced into sterilization. Women without resources are held responsible for making bad" choices . Hyde amendment - excludes most abortions from medicaid funding. Connection between criminalization of pregnant women and abortion rights. Systematic and structural inequalities of birth control and birth control methods masked by birth control image of problem solving method. Neoliberal market logic of individual responsibility instead of state supported public measures. Reproductive freedom requires a broader scale view, justice, addressing environmental/health/social inequalities. Allied with education reform, housing reform, food reform. What is reproductive justice - contrast to the pro-choice movement . Right to parent the children we have and control our birthing options.
