Definitions
Refers to how laws, governments, religion, and social systems control or influence reproductive decisions
Reproductive Politics
The year Roe V Wade was overturned
2022
Reproductive justice activist and Professor at Smith College focusing on the three core tenets of productive justice: the right to have a child, not to have a child, and to raise children
Loretta Ross
1873 law labeled birth control information as "obscene" and banned it from the mail
Comstock Law
Year of Roe V Wade
1973
Argues that birth control and reproduction control is connected to other social issues like labor rights, war, capitalism, and religion.
Kathy Fergson
Term that assumes everyone has equal access to options when it is not true in reality
Choice
The year the term reproductive justice was created
1994. Created in Chicago by 12 Black Women who were impatient with pro choice pro life binary.
A nurse who was one of the first public advocates for contraception. Worked to make birth control legal and available but was tied to lots of eugenics organizations.
Margaret Sanger
A term coined by the LGBTQ+ movement that examines the techno-utopia and changes to reproductive healthcare that may be used to update present day inequalities.
Reproductive Futurism
First US Law Banning Abortion in Connecticut
1821
The first openly trans person to argue in front of the Supreme Court
Chase Strangio