Reproductive Rights
Who does Kuxhausen say had 'sole purview' of 'the world of menses, pregnancy, and childbirth' prior to the seventeenth century?
Women/Midwives
Who founded Planned Parenthood and was an early advocate for birth control in the U.S.?
Margaret Sanger
Which major 1973 Supreme Court case legalized abortion but is now overturned?
Roe v. Wade
In the early modern period, what event traditionally marked when abortion was criminalized after?
"Quickening" (when fetal movement is felt)
According to Briggs, what economic system shifted care work from public to private responsibility, disproportionately harming marginalized communities?
Neoliberalism
What term describes the right to have children, not have children, and parent children in safe and healthy environments?
Reproductive Justice
This Black feminist coined the term "reproductive justice" and led SisterSong.
Who is Loretta Ross?
What law passed in the late 1800s criminalized mailing information about contraception and abortion?
The Comstock Laws
Birthright shows that denying care during miscarriage can lead to what severe consequence for women?
What is death from sepsis (infection)
Birthright shows that reproductive laws disproportionately harm which groups? (Pick one)
Poor women, women of color, immigrants, rural women.
Which U.S. government program provides family planning services to low-income individuals?
Title X
Who founded Ms. Magazine?
Gloria Steinam
What policy does Birthright show threatens doctors with jail for performing medically necessary abortions?
"Personhood Laws"
According to Kuxhausen, early physicians displaced midwives using what new professional authority?
Medical licensing and hospital-based birth
Briggs discusses how welfare debates racialized poverty by focusing on what stereotype?
The "welfare queen"
In the film Birthright: A War Story, what happens to pregnant women under extreme anti-abortion laws?
They are denied life-saving medical care and criminalized.
Kuxhausen discusses Soviet support for abortion rights. Which revolutionary feminist supported this?
Alexandra Kollontai
Briggs highlights what welfare reform legislation signed into law by Bill Clinton that severely impacted low-income mothers?
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996)
Birthright shows that laws restricting abortion also endanger access to what type of fertility treatment?
IVF (in vitro fertilization)
What theory, central to both Briggs and reproductive justice advocates, explains the overlapping systems of oppression people face?
Intersectionality
What is one way pregnant women are criminalized even outside of abortion contexts?
They were charged for miscarriages or being denied medical care
Who is credited in Briggs’ account for influencing early reproductive labor theory by noting its invisibility under capitalism?
Karl Marx
According to Kuxhausen, what European movement in the early 20th century tried to eliminate "undesirable" reproduction through sterilization?
The eugenics movement
True or False: Kuxhausen does not directly explain that contraception and abortion were historically accepted practices before state intervention.
False
In Kuxhausen’s analysis, what historical tactic linked witch hunts to control over women’s reproductive knowledge?
The criminalization and demonization of midwives