"The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows: Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health."
The legal and social rights and freedoms that relate to reproductive health and decision-making, including access to contraception, abortion, and the ability to have children.
Abortion Rights: This topic refers to the fundamental right of women to choose whether or not to terminate their pregnancies.
Contraception: This refers to the use of various methods to prevent unwanted pregnancy, including birth control pills, condoms, and intrauterine devices (IUDs).
Sex education: This refers to education about sex and reproduction, including comprehensive and medically accurate information on reproductive anatomy, sexual activity, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections.
Fertility control: This refers to methods to control fertility, including contraception, abortion, and sterilization.
Maternal health: This topic refers to the health of pregnant women and their unborn babies, including access to prenatal care, safe delivery methods, and postpartum care.
Women's health: This topic refers to various facets of women's physical and mental health, including reproductive health, pregnancy and childbirth, breast and cervical cancer, and menopause.
Gender-based violence: This refers to violence perpetrated against women and girls, including domestic violence, sexual assault, and harassment.
LGBTQIA+ reproductive rights: This refers to the unique challenges and barriers that LGBTQIA+ people face regarding reproductive health care, including access to fertility treatments and adoption.
Reproductive justice: This topic encompasses the intersection of reproductive rights, social justice, and human rights, and recognizes systemic barriers and inequalities that impact marginalized communities' access to reproductive health care.
Disability and reproductive rights: This topic highlights how disability and reproductive rights intersect and may impact people with disabilities' ability to have children, access reproductive health care, and parent successfully.
Ethnic and racial disparities in reproductive health care: This topic highlights how racial disparities, historical trauma, and implicit bias impact health care for individuals and communities of color.
Political and legal issues surrounding reproductive rights: This topic focuses on the political and legal history of reproductive rights, including landmark Supreme Court cases and state-level legislation regarding abortion, contraception, and other reproductive health issues.
Access to contraception: This refers to the right to access birth control methods and information about how to use them.
Abortion rights: This includes the right to access safe and legal abortion services without facing any form of stigmatization, harm, and discrimination.
STD prevention and treatment: This is about the right to access prevention measures such as condoms and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and treatment for STDs.
Infertility treatments: This is about the right to access fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy and artificial insemination.
Maternal health: This includes ensuring that pregnant women have access to timely, high-quality prenatal, delivery, postpartum, and emergency care.
Sex education: This is about the right to comprehensive and accurate information about reproductive health, sexuality, and relationships.
Parental leave: This includes the right to paid or unpaid leave from work to care for a newborn child/.
Sex worker rights: This refers to the right of sex workers to access healthcare, contraception, and other resources, without fear of persecution.
LGBTQ+ reproductive rights: This is about ensuring the reproductive rights of people of diverse sexual and gender identities.
The right to bodily autonomy: This includes the right to make decisions about one’s own body without coercion, discrimination, or violence.
Access to safe and affordable healthcare: This is about the right to access quality healthcare, regardless of income, race, gender or geography.
"They also include the right of all to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence."
"Women's reproductive rights may include some or all of the following: abortion-rights movements; birth control; freedom from coerced sterilization and contraception; the right to access good-quality reproductive healthcare; and the right to education and access in order to make free and informed reproductive choices."
"Reproductive rights may also include the right to receive education about sexually transmitted infections and other aspects of sexuality, right to menstrual health and protection from practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM)."
"Reproductive rights began to develop as a subset of human rights at the United Nation's 1968 International Conference on Human Rights."
"The resulting non-binding Proclamation of Tehran was the first international document to recognize one of these rights when it stated that: 'Parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their children.'"
"Women's sexual, gynecological, and mental health issues were not a priority of the United Nations until its Decade of Women (1975–1985) brought them to the forefront."
"States, though, have been slow in incorporating these rights in internationally legally binding instruments. Thus, while some of these rights have already been recognized in hard law, that is, in legally binding international human rights instruments, others have been mentioned only in non-binding recommendations and, therefore, have at best the status of soft law in international law, while a further group is yet to be accepted by the international community and therefore remains at the level of advocacy."
"Issues related to reproductive rights are some of the most vigorously contested rights' issues worldwide, regardless of the population's socioeconomic level, religion, or culture."
"The issue of reproductive rights is frequently presented as being of vital importance in discussions and articles by population concern organizations such as Population Matters."
"Reproductive rights are a subset of sexual and reproductive health and rights."
"The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows: Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health."
"Women's reproductive rights may include some or all of the following: abortion-rights movements; birth control; freedom from coerced sterilization and contraception; the right to access good-quality reproductive healthcare; and the right to education and access in order to make free and informed reproductive choices."
"Reproductive rights may also include the right to receive education about sexually transmitted infections and other aspects of sexuality, right to menstrual health and protection from practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM)."
"Reproductive rights began to develop as a subset of human rights at the United Nation's 1968 International Conference on Human Rights."
"The resulting non-binding Proclamation of Tehran was the first international document to recognize one of these rights when it stated that: 'Parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their children.'"
"Women's sexual, gynecological, and mental health issues were not a priority of the United Nations until its Decade of Women (1975–1985) brought them to the forefront."
"States, though, have been slow in incorporating these rights in internationally legally binding instruments. Thus, while some of these rights have already been recognized in hard law, that is, in legally binding international human rights instruments, others have been mentioned only in non-binding recommendations and, therefore, have at best the status of soft law in international law, while a further group is yet to be accepted by the international community and therefore remains at the level of advocacy."
"Issues related to reproductive rights are some of the most vigorously contested rights' issues worldwide, regardless of the population's socioeconomic level, religion, or culture."
"The issue of reproductive rights is frequently presented as being of vital importance in discussions and articles by population concern organizations such as Population Matters."