reproductive right

plural reproductive rights

1. in pluralAny right associated with family planning, such as the right to birth control and the right to abortion.

   But the vacancy on the court is a reminder that the next president will have great influence over the future of reproductive rights.

   2016 March 3, “What the Election Means for Reproductive Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   If the reproductive right is interpreted as basic rights of one individual in contrast to the right to life of another, especially that of a defenseless unborn baby, it raises certain fundamental moral questions.

   2007, Alex Vadakumthala, Reproductive Health: Catholic Ethics and Praxis in India, New Delhi: Health Commission, Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 15, →ISBN

   When this reproductive right extends to a control over someone else's body it is an intrusion into another person's body to have children. […] Surrogacy practice involves a control of another human being's body to fulfil one's own reproductive desires and this procedure violates another person's human dignity and reproductive rights.

   2018, Sheela Saravanan, A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India, Singapore: Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174, →ISBN