Intersecting Inequalities in Access to Reproductive Justice

Abstract

Reproductive justice can be politically and legally restricted in many ways. Barriers can stem from a variety of policies, including health, family and immigration policy, showcasing the intertwined nature of reproductive justice in many facets of people’s lives. This panel examines questions of restrictions of possibilities and experiences in fertility, reproductive well-being and family formation from contemporary and historical perspectives. The papers take a global look at various reproduction policy fields through a reproductive justice lens. They examine issues ranging from immigration policy impact on families, cross-national comparisons of abortion policies, reproductive health and its intersecting inequalities encoded in the respective policies, to effects of austerity cuts on fertility and implementation of and access to abortion. Thereby, the panel contributes to a deeper understanding of interrelated reproductive justice issues around the globe and shows how individual reproductive choices can be enabled or restricted within different political and social contexts.

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Reproductive justice and abortion regulation in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden	View Paper Details
Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local authority spending cuts in England have unequal effects on fertility by class and race?	View Paper Details
‘You feel like a second class citizen’: UK family bordering policies through the lens of reproductive justice	View Paper Details