Reproductive JusticePapers

This paper proposes leveraging insights from feminist economics, empirical research, and the capabilities approach to expand understanding of abortion beyond an individual act and the moment of choice, thereby providing a ground to integrate the reproductive justice framework into economics.

A mixed-method study showing that Argentina’s abortion debate became politically possible through feminist organization and framing, rather than waiting for favorable opinion, secularization, or party leadership.

Loretta J. Ross frames reproductive justice as Black feminist movement praxis: three linked rights, material conditions, and the risks of separating reproductive choice from race and power.

Drawing on narratives from 16 disabled women in Harare, Christine Peta examines communication and information barriers in reproductive care, and the tension between imposed asexuality, control of intimacy and reproductive autonomy.

Luna and Luker review reproductive justice through law and society scholarship, showing how the framework reshapes research on reproductive rights, health, intersectionality, movements, and state power.

Zakiya Luna analyzes how women of color organizations pushed US reproductive rights organizing from individual choice and legal rights toward an intersectional reproductive justice framework.