reproductive right

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reproductive right (plural reproductive rights)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) Any right associated with family planning, such as the right to birth control and the right to abortion.
    • 2007, Alex Vadakumthala, Reproductive Health: Catholic Ethics and Praxis in India, New Delhi: Health Commission, Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 15, →ISBN:
      If the reproductive right is interpreted as basic rights of one individual in contrast to the right to life of another, especially that of a defenseless unborn baby, it raises certain fundamental moral questions.
    • 2016 March 3, “What the Election Means for Reproductive Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      But the vacancy on the court is a reminder that the next president will have great influence over the future of reproductive rights.
    • 2018, Sheela Saravanan, A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India, Singapore: Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174, →ISBN:
      When this reproductive right extends to a control over someone else's body it is an intrusion into another person's body to have children. [] Surrogacy practice involves a control of another human being's body to fulfil one's own reproductive desires and this procedure violates another person's human dignity and reproductive rights.

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