Reproductive Health Basics
This is the process where an egg is released from the ovary.
What is ovulation?
This Supreme Court case established the right to contraception for married couples in 1965.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
The reproductive justice movement was co-founded by this Black women's organization in 1994.
What is SisterSong
This Black feminist coined the term "reproductive justice."
Who is Loretta Ross?
This hormonal contraceptive is taken daily and works by preventing ovulation.
What is "the pill"
This term refers to a doctor who specializes in pregnancy and childbirth.
What is an obstetrician?
In 1973, this landmark Supreme Court decision guaranteed the right to an abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This Black activist and nurse founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and campaigned for better maternal health care in the early 20th century.
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
During slavery, enslaved Black women were often denied the right to decide about their own reproduction due to this economic system.
What is chattel slavery?
This type of contraception can last up to 10 years and is inserted into the uterus.
What is an intrauterine device (IUD)?
his is the most common type of cancer in individuals assigned female at birth.
What is breast cancer?
Title X is a federal program that ensures access to this type of health care service.
What is family planning?
In the 1970s, the Relf sisters, aged 12 and 14, were sterilized without consent in this U.S. state.
What is Alabama?
This group of Southern Black midwives was vital to maternal health in rural communities before hospital births became standard.
What are granny midwives?
This emergency contraceptive is sometimes referred to as "the morning-after pill."
What is Plan B?
This test screens for cervical cancer.
What is a Pap smear?
This term describes legislation that requires parental consent or notification for minors seeking abortion services.
What are parental involvement laws?
This law was passed in 1993 to protect patients and providers at reproductive health clinics.
What is the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)?
In the 1970s, this organization exposed the forced sterilization of Black women in the South.
What is the Southern Poverty Law Center?
Condoms made from this material are the only ones that protect against both pregnancy and STIs.
What is latex?
This sexually transmitted infection is sometimes called "the silent infection" because symptoms often go unnoticed.
What is chlamydia?
This federal law prevents discrimination in reproductive health care based on race, gender, or religion.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This United Nations framework emphasizes the right to decide freely about family size, timing, and spacing of children.
What is the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)?
The "Mississippi Appendectomy" was a term used to describe this unethical medical practice performed on Black women.
What is forced sterilization?
This form of permanent contraception involves cutting or sealing the fallopian tubes.
What is tubal ligation?