Reproductive Control
A term used by Black nationalists that believed birth control pills pushed onto the Black community were a deliberate strategy to deplete the Black population.
What is racial genocide?
Theory used to justify the rational control of the reproductive population in order to improve society.
What is eugenics?
Ended federal involvement in subsidizing abortion services and regulated the role to the states.
What is the Hyde Amendment?
A long-acting contraceptive pushed onto low-income Black women as a means to control Black reproduction and a solution to inner-city poverty.
What is Norplant?
A political campaign in the 1980s focusing on eliminating the presence of crack cocaine in inner cities, enabling further criminalization of Black communities.
What is the War on drugs?
Stereotypical characterization of Black women that surfaced throughout the 19th century that viewed Black women as hypersexual and promiscuous.
What is a Jezebel?
Legal case that reaffirmed the right to abortion that could not “restrict a woman’s right to carry a pregnancy to terminate further state interest in population control”
What is Planned Parenthood v. Casey?
The term used to describe the prosecution of pregnant women for using drugs, which Roberts argues disproportionately targets Black women who receive medical care at public hospitals.
What is prenatal drug use prosecution (or fetal abuse)?
A policy that took place in South Carolina that nonconsensually drug testing and reporting pregnant patients resulting in arrest and child abuse charges.
What is the Interagency Policy?
Famous physician and eugenicist who started a campaign advocating for mass sterilization in state institutions and prison as a remedy for race degeneration.
Who is Henry C. Sharp?
Assumes people are rational, autonomous beings who make procreative decisions of their own free will, a framework Roberts criticizes as inadequate for addressing race and class inequality.
What is Liberty Theory (or Reproductive Liberty Theory)?
A key component of government-sponsored family planning programs in the mid-to-late 20th century, which Roberts highlights was often coerced onto poor women of color.
What is Sterilization?
The US government action in 1996, that restructured the welfare system and regulated women's procreative choices, often targeting Black mother's with policies intended to discourage childbearing.
What is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation (PRWORA) or Welfare Reform?
A figure who became the counter-image to the Jezebel, often depicted as a devoted, asexual caregiver to white families, reinforcing the idea of Black women as only fit for servitude, not motherhood of their own children.
Who is the Mammy?
The 1980 Supreme Court case that upheld the Hyde Amendment, ruling that states participating in Medicaid were not required to fund medically necessary abortions.
What is Harris v. McRae
The decade when evidence emerged of mass, sometimes nonconsensual, sterilization of African American and Latina women through federally funded family planning programs.
What are the 1960s and 1970s?
The concept Roberts introduces as the only valid framework for reproductive freedom, emphasizing the right to have a child, the right to not have a child, and the right to parent one's children in a safe and healthy environments.
What is Reproductive Justice?
What is Buck v. Bell?
Laws enacted, primarily after the Civil War, that prohibited interracial marriage and sexual relations, which historically served to maintain white purity and control over Black women's reproduction.
What are anti-miscegenation laws?
The term used to describe the infant born to a drug-using mother, a label that Roberts argues served to dehumanize and justify punitive policies against Black mothers.
What is a "crack baby"?