Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Advocates for reproductive health, rights, and justice are increasingly aware of the safety and social risks of assisted reproductive technologies and other human biotechnologies, particularly for women and children.

While assisted reproduction has helped many people create families, the long-term risks of these technologies – particularly those that require egg provision – are grossly understudied. In the U.S., assisted reproduction has developed almost entirely in the commercial sector and is notoriously underregulated.

Heritable genome editing, if allowed, would develop in this same commercial sector. Reproductive justice advocates draw attention to the risks to women and children’s health and wellbeing, the historical context of population control and reproductive oppression, and the likelihood that it would exacerbate reproductive, racial, and disability injustice.

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By Emily Galpern | 01.30.2020

Biopolitical Times

New materials from CGS and Black Women for Wellness put the development of germline modification within the context of historical attempts to control the reproductive lives of women, trans, and nonbinary people.

Human Genetic Modification

Why reproductive justice is essential to understanding gene editing

By Victoria Massie | 06.06.2017

Biopolitical Times

On June 13, the Center for Genetics and Society, alongside Black Women for Wellness and In Our Own Voice National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, will be hosting the webinar, “Gene Editing and the Future of Reproductive Justice.”...

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By Lisa Ikemoto and Diane Tober, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.12.2019

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Medical researchers would be allowed to buy women’s eggs under a bill being considered by the Legislature this week. As pro-choice, feminist scholars, we are deeply troubled by this legislation.

Assisted Reproduction

Victory for Reproductive Justice in California: New Budget Includes Reparations for Survivors of Eugenic Sterilization

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Biopolitical Times

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Should U.S. Citizenship Be Heritable?

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Made in India

By Molly Maguire, Biopolitical Times | 07.02.2010

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Other Countries

Watchdog under fire as number of IVF blunders soars

By Jo Macfarlane, The Daily Mail | 04.24.2010

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China tries to sterilise 10,000 parents over one-child rule

By Jane Macartney, The Times (London) | 04.17.2010

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By Marcy Darnovsky, Biopolitical Times | 02.10.2010

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Genetic Selection

Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building

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Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building

An international consultation hosted by Sama Resource Group for Women and Health in New Delhi between 22 and 24 January 2010

In a time when tissues, gametes, technologies, as well as the people who seek these technologies, are crossing borders, concerns about the commercial, economic and ethical aspects of assisted reproductive technologies go beyond national or even regional boundaries. This consultation aimed to bring together a balanced representation of activists, scholars and researchers from different movements, networks, and organisations from across the world working on similar concerns.

Sama Resource Group for Women and Health published a report [PDF] on the consultation, which includes a summary of Marcy Darnovsky's presentation, "Commercialisation of Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: What Lessons for Biotech Developments around the Globe?"

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