Reproductive Rights and Gender: Pro Choice, Pro Life, and Beyond

Reproductive Rights and Gender: Pro Choice, Pro Life, and Beyond

*What are Reproductive Rights and Gender?

ž *Reproductive rights and gender are legal rights and freedoms relating to the reproduction or reproductive health for either men or women.

ž *Is being able to decide on how many children you want and the spacing between each child as well.

ž *These rights include safe and legal abortions, control over own reproductive functions and health care, education and access to help you and others make reproductive choices free from discrimination, coercion, and violence, also receive education based on contraceptives and sexually transmitted diseases. 

ž *Even though women have gained legalized abortions and  contraceptives, to be able to access or afford this has been made difficult.

 *Men have the right to ask for a paternity test if a women is pregnant and claims the baby is his, until proven he is the father he has absolute no responsibility towards the child.  

*Pro Choice:

  *The belief that women should have individual control over decisions she makes over abortion and fertility. Pro choice is being able to consider continuing or terminating a pregnancy.

ž*Lives are improved when women are able to have the right to legal and safe abortions.

ž*Pro choice people vary in ideas over abortion under certain circumstances like far term pregnancy.

*žBelieve that if abortion is banned, women will have no choice over pregnancy and the rise of illegal abortion will put the health of many women at risk worldwide.

*žConfusion exist between pro choice and pro abortion, abortion is still illegal in some states and illegal with exceptions like rape, maternal life, and health in others.

*Pro Life:
ž*Pro life is the belief that the government has the obligation to preserve all human life, regardless of intent, capability, or quality of life.

-Strongly believe in prohibiting abortion, death penalty, war, and suicide being horribly wrong.

ž*Pro life groups of people tend to be conservatives in abortion and suicide, but liberals in cases of death penalty and war.

ž*Believe that the soul starts to exist in the moment of contraception and that being a live person determines in having a soul, then there is no difference in terminating a week old pregnancy and killing breathing person.

*žMany people are pro life due to their religious beliefs; religions such as the Roman Catholic Church are supporters of this movement and believe the presence of life alone determines person-hood.

*A Mans' Right to Choose:

ž*The article “ A Man’s Right to Choose: Is it fair that women have reproductive rights while men have reproductive responsibilities?” by Cathy Young states that by making fatherhood a choice, it will allow men to feel obligation free, and not become resented or avoided.

ž*The majority of the men feel that they at least should have the ability to be involved in decisions that affect their lives as well.

*žCathy Young believes that parental desertion is often the males irresponsibility and selfishness.

*žMen want their parental role to be taken seriously and that women should have the obligation to let the man know about any decisions taken towards pregnancy.

*Our Bodies Our Souls:

      ž*This article by Naomi Wolf mentions how abortion right within a moral framework admits that the death of a fetus is a real death and there are degrees of culpability, judgment, and responsibility in the decision to abort.

ž*žFeminism engages in holding women as well as men responsible and inseparable of their rights.

ž*This country has increased its abortion rate; regardless of the responsibility, grief , mourning  and possible health problems that comes with the traumatic event of abortion.

***ARE YOU PRO-LIFE OR PRO-CHOICE?!? WHY?!?***