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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Restrictive Domestication: Human Rights and US Exceptionalism -- 2. Pushed to Human Rights: Marginalization in the US Women's Movement -- 3. Pulled to Human Rights: Engagement with Global Gatherings -- 4. Training the Trainers amidst Backlash -- 5. Marching toward Human Rights or Reproductive Justice? -- 6. Writing Rights and Responsibility -- 7. "They're All Intertwined": Developing Human Rights Consciousness -- 8. "Puppies and Rainbows" or Pragmatic Politics? Organizations Engaging with Human Rights -- Conclusion: Making Utopias Real -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Methods -- Appendix B: Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

There exist prospects and opportunities for the protection of Reproductive Health Rights in the Nigerian Legal System. Nigeria has ratified severalInternational/Regional Human Rights instruments which seek to protect reproductive rights, there are some Human Rights provisions contained in the constitution, some other provisions on Federal and State Legislations that are gender based. There are also the reports on Millennium Development Goals and National Reproductive Health Policies which shows that there are prospects and opportunities that the government can protect women's reproductive health and rights in Nigeria. Nonetheless, there is undoubtedly room for improvement in the protection of this peculiar genre of rights of women in Nigeria and this work proffers country-centric recommendations which cut across options of amending relevant Constitutional and Federal/State legislations on Reproductive Health Rights. The country will certainly benefit from an implementation of the National Reproductive Health policies that have evolved overtime and domesticating some of the international and regional instruments that has been ratified like CEDAW whilst enacting a National Reproductive Health Law by National Assembly which will be uniformly adopted and implemented throughout the country.

Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- chapter 1: The Reproductive Rights Debate in the Age of Human Rights -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Method -- 3 Reproductive Rights in the Age of Human Rights -- Human Rights -- Reproductive Rights -- Right-Wing Politics -- 4 Organization of the Book -- References -- chapter 2: The Fight over Abortion: Fetal Rights in the Post-Roe Era -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Development of the Pro-life Movement in the Aftermath of Roe -- 3 The Fetus-Centered Discourse -- The Fetus as a Human Being: The Sanctity of Life

The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, and printed materials pertaining to the organization and activities of the Depo Diaries, a national storytelling project of the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment (CWPE), 1999-2008. Files include forms and questionnaires for participants in the project, promotional flyers, meeting minutes, and printed materials pertaining to reproductive justice and other CWPE activities. ; Formed in 2001, the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment (CWPE), a multi-racial alliance of feminist community organizers, scholarly activists, and health practitioners, is committed to promoting the social and economic empowerment of women in a context of global peace and justice; and to eliminating poverty. As an organization, CWPE supports women's right to safe, voluntary birth control and abortion, while strongly opposing demographically driven population policies, challenging the belief that population growth is the primary cause of environmental degradation, conflict, and growing poverty, working to provide a broader analysis that reflects the complexity of these issues. CWPE works to build partnerships with community organizers, scholar-activists, and health practitioners to accomplish its political goals, coordinating three task forces: the Dangerous Contraceptive Task Force; the Immigration, Environment, and Gender Task Force; and the Gender, Eugenics, and Biotechnology Task Force. These are the vehicles through which CWPE builds strong coalitions to challenge oppressive population control policies. In addition, CWPE also coordinates three critical initiatives designed to address and undermine reproductive violence and increase reproductive self-determination: Stop C.R.A.C.K.!, Depo Diaries, and Stop Sex Selection!. Depo Diaries was a national storytelling project with an emphasis on reproductive justice with the goal of uncovering a more accurate picture of the range and kinds of side effects women experience from Depo-Provera (trademarked name of medroxyprogesterone, an injected contraceptive).

Reproductive justice is essential in the struggle to remove health inequalities. Currently, escalating threats to reproductive rights are rarely discussed in contemporary social work literature. Discomfort in the profession about addressing challenges to abortion rights exposes a lack of courage to treat abortion as essential healthcare. A case study of several abortion-focused articles and chapters reveals a strand of ambivalence about taking a progressive stance on abortion. Recent trends demonstrate that reproductive rights cannot be taken for granted. Even when law reform removes some of the barriers to safe, legal abortion, abortion stigma and anti-choice harassment remain potent threats to reproductive autonomy. A case is made for reproductive justice to be central in our drive for health equality. This requires a feminist perspective, moving away from seeing women as merely the object of the social work gaze, too often the focus of scrutiny and judgement.

This book takes an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational approach, presenting work that will provide the reader with a nuanced and in-depth understanding of the role of globalization in the sexual and reproductive lives of gendered bodies in the 21st century. Reproductive Justice and Sexual Rights: Transnational Perspectives draws on reproductive justice and transnational feminism as frameworks to explore and make sense of the reproductive and sexual experiences of various groups of women and marginalized people around the world. Interactions between globalization, feminism, reproductive justice, and sexual rights are explored within human rights and transnational feminist paradigms. This book includes case studies from Mexico, Ireland, Uganda, Colombia, Taiwan, and the United States. The edited collection presented here is intended to provide academics and students with a challenging and thought-provoking look into sexual and reproductive health matters from across the globe. In this way, the work presented in this volume will help the reader understand their own reproductive and sexual experiences in a more nuanced and contextualized way that links individuals and communities to each other in a quest for justice and liberation.

COVER; HALF TITLE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Thinking Transnationally: Reproductive Justice in a Globalized Era; Bibliography; PART I: COLONIAL LEGACIES AND POST-COLONIAL CONDITIONS; Chapter 1 White Property Interests in Native Women's Reproductive Freedom: Slavery to Transracial Adoption; The Framework of Whiteness; Slavery: White Property Interests in Native Women's Bodies; Native and Black Entanglements Under Captivity; Native Codes in California: Retaining Property Interests in Native Women's Reproduction

In this article, I explore contestations over the legislation and enactment of reproductive rights in South Africa. I argue that the public disapprobation surrounding teenage pregnancy relates, in complex ways, to broader suspicions about moral atavism among the polity. This is the sense that the democratic transition has dismantled established modes of social regulation, resulting in a rupture in the social fabric.i This article explores two elements of this idea: Firstly, that the legislation of democratic freedoms has licensed sexual promiscuity among youth. Secondly, that this sexual promiscuity is related to other forms of profligate consumption among 'Born Frees'. I contrast claims about the social damage wrought by the empowerment of women in the post- apartheid era, with the experiential accounts of young women themselves. I compare statements made by President Jacob Zuma about teenage pregnancy, with the ideas and experiences of young South Africans, and their older relatives. I explore how disputes over reproductive agency and sexual freedom have been refracted through different experiential prisms, coloured by gender and generation. I describe the political utility of calls for the greater regulation of young women's sexual and reproductive behaviours. Key claims arose from three years of primary research within the Mzantsi Wakho study, a longitudinal study which focuses on the health experiences of young people, caregivers, health workers and social service providers, in South Africa's Eastern Cape.

An examination of the implications of basing abortion rights on a right to privacy, suggesting that a focus on the legal grounds for a woman's right to consent to be pregnant would be a better basis for the right to choice. This switch in strategy would place the burden of proof on those who would then have to show why the fetus has a right to access a woman's body. It is concluded that the issue in abortion is the woman's right to consent to the physical intrusion of the fertilized ovum initiating & maintaining a condition of pregnancy in her body. This approach will establish the strongest legal grounds for exercising the right to abortion & aid in the pursuit of state funding for abortion. 77 References. D. Schwartz

"This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-cultural contexts in various countries, and the regional concerns which animate these discourses. Abortion as practice and rhetoric has historically drawn attention to the reproductive body in the public sphere. This book traces the continuities and discontinuities in the debates around abortion rights, and its relationship with the State, in different countries - US, Korea, China, Poland, Argentina, Ireland, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, and New Zealand. It presents a comparative analysis that is grounded thematically around issues of race, class, technology, politics, and law, through interactions with institutionalized religion and the state. Central to this endeavour is an understanding of feminist mobilization on issues of abortion rights, in different cultural-historical contexts and its implications for the articulation of reproductive justice. For instance, it looks at the specific and diverse ways in which religion and culture intersect with state practice and national identities; the emergence of social action, activism and mobilization; the international politics of population control; and the place of reproductive justice and feminist resistance in processes of democratization. Lucid and topical, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of gender studies, sociology, political science, human rights, policy around reproductive and women's rights, law, and reproductive justice"--