Safe Haven Laws and Anti-Abortion Politics
Anti-abortion advocacy and values consistent with Catholic and other conservative religious ideologies are at the core of safe haven laws.
Reproductive Rights
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Read more: The False Choice: Adoptee Voices in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom The False Choice: Adoptee Voices in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom
Relinquishing a child for adoption is an alternative to parenting that child, not to carrying a pregnancy to term.
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Read more: The Reproductive Violence of Family Policing & Separation The Reproductive Violence of Family Policing & Separation
Justice Coney Barrett’s comments highlight the way in which forms of reproductive control and violence intersect in the lives of Black women.
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Read more: The Freedom to Choose (to Give Your Babies Away) The Freedom to Choose (to Give Your Babies Away)
Justice Coney Barrett’s remarks reveal a cluelessness about the human condition and the meaning of bearing a child and then placing a newborn for adoption.
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Read more: The Danger of Forced Pregnancy The Danger of Forced Pregnancy
There is a word for forcing people to do unpaid reproductive labor on behalf of others: enslavement.
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Read more: Adoption, Family Separation & Preservation, and Reproductive Justice Adoption, Family Separation & Preservation, and Reproductive Justice
Adoption is a reflection of our country’s many and increasing failures to allow people control over their own reproductive choices and bodies.
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Read more: Tennessee on My Mind: Reflections on the Reinstated Abortion ‘Reason Bans’ Tennessee on My Mind: Reflections on the Reinstated Abortion ‘Reason Bans’
Government coercion in family planning is not a tenable solution to gender imbalances, but rather a fundamental cause of them.
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Read more: A ‘Middle Ground’ in the Legal Abortion Debate Disproportionately Harms Marginalized Communities A ‘Middle Ground’ in the Legal Abortion Debate Disproportionately Harms Marginalized Communities
Any so-called “middle ground” that leaves the issue of abortion up to the states will result in an increasingly inequitable two-tiered system.
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Read more: Brittney Poolaw and the Long Tradition of State-Sponsored Control of Women and Their Fertility Brittney Poolaw and the Long Tradition of State-Sponsored Control of Women and Their Fertility
Poolaw’s conviction stands as a modern recapitulation of the historical violations that women have endured regarding their fertility.
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Read more: How Adult Guardianship Law Fails to Protect Contraceptive Decision-Making Rights How Adult Guardianship Law Fails to Protect Contraceptive Decision-Making Rights
Reform is needed to address the restrictions on reproductive decision-making rights that adults under guardianship currently face.
