Reproductive Justice Beyond Borders: Global Feminist Solidarity in the Post- Roe Era

J Law Med Ethics. 2023;51(3):606-611. doi: 10.1017/jme.2023.101. Epub 2023 Dec 13.

Abstract

The global impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and the backlash towards reproductive justice that it represents warrant a global feminist response informed by broad theoretical and geopolitical lenses. We consider how a solidaristic, transnational feminist movement might learn from Latin American feminist movements that have been successful in uniting broad coalitions in the fight for reproductive justice as situated within far-reaching political goals. The success of such a global movement must be decolonial and must contend with the fact that overlapping realities of global inequality, severe poverty, extractivism, and western-backed violence are fundamentally implicated in reproductive justice.

Keywords: Abortion; Decolonialism; Feminist Solidarity; Latin America; Reproductive Justice.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Feminism*
  • Global Health*
  • Humans
  • Reproduction*
  • Social Justice*
  • Supreme Court Decisions
  • United States
  • Women's Health*

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