1. Reproductive Rights & Health

2. What are the primary factors that control women’s reproductive choice and health?
Family/community
Religion
Race/ethnicity
Social attitudes
Status in community
Loretta Lynn, ‘The Pill”, 1975
Include men
Contraception as ‘Western’ notion

3. What are the primary factors that control women’s reproductive choice and health? (cont.)
Socioeconomic status
Level of education
Income
Cash transfers
Contraception availability, education
Access to technology
Gov’t policies
Pro/anti-natalist policies
Re: contraception and abortion

4. What are the consequences of limiting women’s reproductive choice?
#, frequency of births
Population growth
Limits ♀’s options
Maternal health
↑ mortality, ↑ morbidity
Abortion
Increased rates
Unsafe conditions
***Absolute correlation bt. reproductive choice and economic development

5. What factors impact the effectiveness of contraceptive methods?
Intersectionality
Biological
Effectiveness varies
Access to treatment
IUD v. The Pill
Sociocultural
Norms
Expectations
Way to control women

6. What barriers hinder women’s access to abortions?
Laws
Unwillingness, inability to enforce laws
Religious beliefs
What reasons are given for granting access to abortions?
Limits ♀’s options
Economic
Maternal health
Rape

7. Solutions can also transcend borders
Why are reproductive health and control transnational issues?
Spread of disease
Food crises
GS needs support
Problems transcend borders
Practices relocate
Asylum
Population growth
Stymies development terrorism, political unrest
Solutions can also transcend borders