Women, Gender, and Sex

If/When/How recognizes that most law school courses are not applying an intersectional, reproductive justice lens to complex issues. To address this gap, our issue briefs and primers are designed to illustrate how law and policies disparately impact individuals and communities. If/When/How is committed to transforming legal education by providing students, instructors, and practitioners with the tools and support they need to utilize an intersectional approach.

While our country remains bitterly divided over the issue of abortion, many women struggle to exercise their right to abortion in a political climate that is increasingly hostile toward reproductive rights. For women of color, however, abortion access is only one battle in a much larger fight for reproductive justice.

The Reproductive Rights Movement has, throughout its history, been heavily affected by public perception. Both its proponents and opponents have therefore taken to using language in order to frame the controversial issues in ways that best achieve their respective objectives. This paper explores the terminology used to discuss such issues as birth control, sterilization, and abortion since 1914, when the term ‘birth control’ was first used.

The idea that abortion rights are central to protecting women’s health will hardly come as a surprise to most reproductive rights advocates. For example, much of the recent litigation challenging states’ legal restrictions on abortion has centered around the requirement of a health exception—that is, around the question of whether legislation regulating abortion must contain an exception for cases where the regulated procedure is necessary to protect the woman’s health.

The pro-choice movement is supportive of a woman's right to terminate pregnancy. The term was coined in the years after the Roe vs. Wade ruling in 1973, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of largely unrestricted abortion. Advocates adopted the phrase to emphasize the woman's choice and to counter the opposing ‘pro-life' movement. The pro-choice lobby believes that mothers-to-be should have control over their reproductive systems as a fundamental human right.

Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world.[1] The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows:[2]

Reproductive justice is a critical feminist framework that was invented as a response to United States reproductive politics. The three core values of reproductive justice are the right to have a child, the right to not have a child, and the right to parent a child or children in safe and healthy environments. The framework moves women's reproductive rights past a legal and political debate to incorporate the economic, social, and health factors that impact women's reproductive choices and decision-making ability.

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a field of research, healthcare, and social activism that explores the health of an individual's reproductive system and sexual wellbeing during all stages of their life.

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A high school valedictorian exhaled as she pulled a piece of paper from underneath her graduation gown.

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The FDA decision to allow patients to receive the pills via telemedicine or through the mail during the pandemic has galvanized both sides of the abortion wars.

The restrictions on abortion have flung me back to a terrifying time in my own life half a century ago, one I never expected women today would have to face.

There’s reason to believe the Justice Department will succeed where abortion providers failed.

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade , the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion.

Reproductive justice activists speak on the significance of “We Remember,” a document released 30 years ago advocating for Black women’s right to choose.

California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature on Wednesday revealed a plan to make the state a "sanctuary" for those seeking reproductive care, including possibly paying for travel, lodging and procedures for people from other states.

Grace on the Margins: Twenty-six years ago, a coalition of Black women developed a comprehensive ethic of care that includes the right to abortion. It has some striking overlaps with parts of Catholic social teaching.