Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Justice

How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a human rights issue? In , Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement. Focusing on SisterSong, an intersectional reproductive justice organization, Luna shows how, and why, women of color mobilized around reproductive rights in the domestic arena. She examines their key role in re-framing reproductive rights as human rights, raising this set of issues as a priority in the United States, a country hostile to the concept of human rights at home. An indispensable read, provides a much-needed intersectional perspective on the modern-day reproductive justice movement.