Reproductive Justice

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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.

Online discussion series

April 26th to July 5th 2022

Logo mit Schriftzug: REFRAMING REPRODUCT

Reframing Reproduction

Online discussion series
The freedom to decide over one’s own body and reproduction is still a privilege in today’s world. Whether or not to have children and how to raise them is a very personal choice, but also a choice with political implications: Who is encouraged or forced to have children? Who has access to resources and the means to have children? Whose parenthood is the subject of reappraisal or prevention? How do laws, policies, and public health programmes influence people’s access to reproductive self-determination?

Factsheets

Cover Factsheet Reproductive Technologies

Reproductive Technologies: From emancipatory potential to selection and exploitation

Factsheet
Reproductive technologies encompass a wide range of medical treatments and surgical procedures that enable people to have children without the necessity for heterosexual intercourse. The number of treatment cycles has been steadily increasing since the 1990s.
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Cover Abortion

Abortion: From criminalisation to the right to self-determination

Factsheet
Abortion is one of the most common gynecological procedures. Legal regulations have a major impact on whether access to this essential healthcare service is safe, legal and free of charge.  
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Podcasts

Reproductive rights around the world

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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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