Post by Keith on May 27, 2007 11:21:28 GMT -8
Reproductive freedom is having the rights to control or not to control your own reproductive organs. You have the freedom to have consentual sex with whomever you want to have it with. Basically, it's your right and your right only. Nobody can force you to get sterilized nor force you to abstain from sexual intercoruse. It allows you the freedom to use condoms and all sorts of other contraceptives.
Important rights that come along reproductive freedom are medical coverage, anti-discrimination, and privacy. Pro-choice which is definied as the female's right to get an abortion is also associated with reproductive rights and freedoms but it is just one major factor of the even bigger picture. Reproductive rights/freedoms play a very important part in overall human rights/freedoms as well. When you look at it, reproductive freedom especially for females are extremely important.
If a woman was raped and got pregnant as a result of it, she should have the right to take an emergency contraceptive. If need be get an abortion. Abortion can be a pretty touchy subject but that's just an example of what reproductive freedoms represent. And rape is by far the biggest violation of a female's reproductive rights/freedoms asides from genital mutiliation.
Reproductive freedom also means your right to privacy to reproduce or have recreational sex with a contraceptive without the government nor the church breathing down your back. It's also one of the biggest cores between the separation of church and state. If there was no separation between church and state, there would be little to no reproductive rights. We all should know the church's stands on reproductive rights.
They believe pre-marital sex is wrong meaning they could ban contraceptives and other sorts of protection. At the same time, women wouldn't have the freedom to get an abortion. So yes, one of the freedoms associated with the separation of the church and state are reproductive freedoms.
In short, the definition of reproductive rights is basically the freedom to have sex with, the freedom to have a child with, the freedom to get an abortion if and when the need arises, the freedom to contraceptives, the freedom to sex education, the freedom to have control of your reproductive rights, and so forth.
Reproductive freedom encompasses all of these rights. Keep in mind, legally you can get a forced sterilization. But it's rarely even done. There was a judge that was murdered a few years ago on an unrelated incident involving a supremacist group. Long before, he tried this one case where this woman was charged with murder by drowning her son in the bathtub.
The judge gave her a choice: get her tubes tied or face jail time. She agreed to get her reproductive rights taken away to avoid jail time.
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Important rights that come along reproductive freedom are medical coverage, anti-discrimination, and privacy. Pro-choice which is definied as the female's right to get an abortion is also associated with reproductive rights and freedoms but it is just one major factor of the even bigger picture. Reproductive rights/freedoms play a very important part in overall human rights/freedoms as well. When you look at it, reproductive freedom especially for females are extremely important.
If a woman was raped and got pregnant as a result of it, she should have the right to take an emergency contraceptive. If need be get an abortion. Abortion can be a pretty touchy subject but that's just an example of what reproductive freedoms represent. And rape is by far the biggest violation of a female's reproductive rights/freedoms asides from genital mutiliation.
Reproductive freedom also means your right to privacy to reproduce or have recreational sex with a contraceptive without the government nor the church breathing down your back. It's also one of the biggest cores between the separation of church and state. If there was no separation between church and state, there would be little to no reproductive rights. We all should know the church's stands on reproductive rights.
They believe pre-marital sex is wrong meaning they could ban contraceptives and other sorts of protection. At the same time, women wouldn't have the freedom to get an abortion. So yes, one of the freedoms associated with the separation of the church and state are reproductive freedoms.
In short, the definition of reproductive rights is basically the freedom to have sex with, the freedom to have a child with, the freedom to get an abortion if and when the need arises, the freedom to contraceptives, the freedom to sex education, the freedom to have control of your reproductive rights, and so forth.
Reproductive freedom encompasses all of these rights. Keep in mind, legally you can get a forced sterilization. But it's rarely even done. There was a judge that was murdered a few years ago on an unrelated incident involving a supremacist group. Long before, he tried this one case where this woman was charged with murder by drowning her son in the bathtub.
The judge gave her a choice: get her tubes tied or face jail time. She agreed to get her reproductive rights taken away to avoid jail time.
www.helium.com/tm/335628/reproductive-freedom-having-rights