"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 right to control one's own reproductive choices and access to reproductive healthcare, including contraception and abortion.
Abortion Rights: The legal and social issues involved in access to abortion and women's control over their reproductive choices.
Birth Control: The history of contraception methods and their role in women's lives and reproductive health.
Reproductive Justice: The intersectional approach to reproductive rights, including the rights of marginalized communities like women of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ individuals.
Family Planning and Parenting: The social and economic factors that affect family planning and parenting decisions, and the role of the state in family policy.
Sexual Health and Education: The importance of comprehensive sexual health education and access to healthcare services for reproductive health.
Maternal Health: The social and medical factors contributing to maternal mortality and morbidity, and the role of healthcare providers in ensuring good maternal health.
Gender and Sexuality: The relationship between gender identity, sexual orientation, and reproductive rights.
Fertility and Infertility: The social and medical aspects of fertility and infertility, including the role of assisted reproductive technologies.
Population Control: The history of population control policies and their impact on women's reproductive rights and health.
Violence against Women: The impact of gender-based violence on women's reproductive health and rights, and the role of reproductive rights in preventing and addressing violence against women.
The right to access information and education about reproductive health: This includes access to accurate information about contraception, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), pregnancy, childbirth, and abortion.
The right to make decisions about one's own reproductive health: This includes the right to make decisions about contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, and abortion without coercion or interference.
The right to access reproductive health services: This includes access to contraceptive services, infertility treatments, prenatal care, abortion, and post-abortion care.
The right to privacy: This includes the right to confidentiality and protection of personal information related to reproductive health.
The right to informed consent: This includes the right to receive clear and accurate information about medical procedures and to make decisions about one's own health care based on this information.
The right to safe and legal abortion: This includes access to safe and legal abortion services without fear of legal repercussions or harm.
The right to access maternal healthcare: This includes access to healthcare services for pregnant women, including prenatal care, delivery, and postnatal care.
The right to reproductive justice: This includes the right to control one's own reproduction, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or other social factors that may impact access to reproductive healthcare.
The right to reproductive autonomy: This includes the right to control one's own reproductive choices, including the decision to have children or not, and the right to choose the timing and circumstances of one's children.
The right to gender equity: This includes the right to equal access to reproductive health services and information, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
"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."