Comprehension

Before applying what we’ve learned from this study guide into our own life and organizing, we must first make sure we understand what the authors are saying. Take the following questions and answer them in your own words. When doing so, try to limit the number of sentences you use and aim to explain these concepts succinctly. To double-check your work, or if you are truly stuck, you may visit the summary sections that address the question.

1. What is reproductive justice? What are the three primary frameworks of reproductive justice?

2. How have birth control and sterilization methods been abused in the medical community to the detriment of women of color?

3. What factors stand in the way of reproductive justice for API women in particular?

4. How has the reproductive health of disabled women been uniquely exploited and/or ignored?

5. How can men become involved in the reproductive justice movement?

6. How do adoption and the foster care system show that reproductive justice has not yet been realized?

7. What are two reasons that overpopulation hysteria is not only inaccurate but harmful to the Reproductive Justice movement?

8. How are environmental justice and reproductive justice intrinsically linked? 

9. What role has the U.S. Christian right played in the reversal of and fight against Reproductive Justice (pharmacists’ refusals, abstinence-only teachings, crisis clinics, the Marriage Imperative)? When considering your experiences with systems of oppression, how have you been personally impacted by this?

10. What factors determine whether or not a person can make their own reproductive decisions free of coercion or harm?