Reproductive rights

Reproductive rights is a controversial political term to refer to "women's rights" in areas of sexual reproduction, including the rights to reproduce (rel. forced sterilization) as well as rights not to reproduce, (rel. birth control, abortion).

Related Topics:
Controversial - Women's rights - Reproduction - Forced sterilization - Birth control - Abortion

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Uncontroversially, the term represents the political framing of contraception and abortion as rights, particular to women, as women, exclusively, are the biological vessels of human reproduction.

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In this context, "reproductive rights" is largely synonymous with pro-choice philosophies. Many pro-life advocates claim that the term is simply mincing words —claiming there to be no practical (hence meaningful) difference between the two statements.

Related Topics:
Pro-choice - Pro-life

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However, supporters of reproductive rights may consider it misleading to say, in the context of reproduction politics, that a political figure "supports abortion", when instead that person may simply support a "woman's right to choose abortion among other alternatives."

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Supporters claim that such principle falls with the context of right to privacy, and freedom from "governmental interference" —supporting the "legalization of abortion" rather than "supporting abortion" itself.

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