Human Rights and Reproductive Governance in Transnational Perspective

Reproductive Governance in Nordeste/Northeast (Juan Solanas, 2005, Argentina/France/Belgium/Spain)

“…They explain that the addition of children's rights to the adoption equation was used during the Argentine dictatorship as a justification to continue the trade in appropriating children and was then subverted to be used as a defence against human rights campaigners looking for disappeared children. This aligns with how El Kotni and Singer (2019) describe the way human rights can disrupt reproductive governance and vice versa. This is seen in how Juana is under pressure to give her son up for adoption as a way to solve the problems associated with her continuing reproduction.…”

“…She suggests that reproductive governance has been a useful analytical tool to discuss not only new reproductive technologies but also the debates around human rights. El Kotni and Singer (2019) have also argued that it is important to recognise that reproductive governance and human rights now intersect or disrupt each other. The ever-expanding political discussion on human rights has brought the foetus, rather than the woman, to the forefront of discussions on reproduction.…”

Reproductive justice for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color: Uprooting race and colonialism

“…Empowerment requires an external, power‐oriented shift to this oppression, as opposed to an internal change, such as adaptation or accommodation to existing power structures and the oppression that BIWoC face (Cattaneo et al, 2014). BIWoC activists and leaders have been at the forefront of reproductive justice movements in the United States and abroad (El Kotni & Singer, 2019; Luna, 2021; Ross et al, 2001). As aforementioned, aligned with CRT, these movements have reshaped the singular focus on childbearing choices to a reproductive justice framework that is interconnected with economic, racial, environmental, health equity, and immigration justice (Price, 2011, 2020).…”

Arbitrating Abortion: Sex-selection and Care Work among Abortion Providers in England

“…Anthropological attention to (and in) abortion politics is long established (Ginsburg 1989), and has intensified in recent years to chart how regimes of reproductive governance tighten controls over abortion, and how, on the other hand, activists lobby for women's access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare services as a human right (Andaya and Mishtal 2017;Andaya 2019;De Zordo, Mishtal and Anton 2017;El Kotni and Singer 2019;REDACTED;REDACTED). The contemporary era of Trump and Brexit reflect how reproductive politics are fluidly evolving and unfolding 'at the core of newly powerful and emboldened populist movements that openly articulate an explicitly racist, sexist, and fascist agenda' (Franklin and Ginsburg 2019).…”