Editing Reproductive rights (section)

==Women's rights==
{{See also|Women's rights|Reproductive justice}}
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The [[United Nations Population Fund]] (UNFPA) and the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) advocate for reproductive rights with a primary emphasis on [[women's rights]]. In this respect the UN and WHO focus on a range of issues from access to [[family planning]] services, sex education, [[menopause]], and the reduction of [[obstetric fistula]], to the relationship between reproductive health and economic status.

The reproductive rights of women are advanced in the context of the right to freedom from [[discrimination]] and the social and economic status of women. The group [[Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era]] (DAWN) explained the link in the following statement:<ref name="FREEDMAN" />
<blockquote>Control over reproduction is a basic need and a basic right for all women. Linked as it is to women's health and social status, as well as the powerful social structures of religion, state control and administrative inertia, and private profit, it is from the perspective of poor women that this right can best be understood and affirmed. Women know that childbearing is a social, not a purely personal, phenomenon; nor do we deny that world population trends are likely to exert considerable pressure on resources and institutions by the end of this century. But our bodies have become a pawn in the struggles among states, religions, male heads of households, and private corporations. Programs that do not take the interests of women into account are unlikely to succeed...</blockquote>

Women's reproductive rights have long retained key issue status in the debate on [[overpopulation]].<ref name=popsearch/>
<blockquote>"The only ray of hope I can see – and it's not much – is that wherever women are put in control of their lives, both politically and socially; where medical facilities allow them to deal with birth control and where their husbands allow them to make those decisions, birth rate falls. Women don't want to have 12 kids of whom nine will die." [[David Attenborough|David&nbsp;Attenborough]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Sir David Attenborough on the roots of Climatic problems|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/sir-david-attenborough-this-awful-summer-weve-only-ourselves-to-blame-7942405.html|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref></blockquote>

According to [[OHCHR]]: "Women's sexual and reproductive health is related to multiple human rights, including the right to life, the right to be free from torture, the right to health, the right to privacy, the right to education, and the prohibition of discrimination".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/women/wrgs/pages/healthrights.aspx|title=OHCHR {{!}} Sexual and reproductive health and rights|website=www.ohchr.org|access-date=19 June 2019}}</ref>

Attempts have been made to analyse the socioeconomic conditions that affect the realisation of a woman's reproductive rights. The term [[reproductive justice]] has been used to describe these broader social and economic issues. Proponents of reproductive justice argue that while the right to [[abortion law|legalized abortion]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/gov/bl_roe_e.htm|title=Women's History|website=Womenshistory.about.com|access-date=19 August 2017}}</ref> and contraception applies to everyone, these choices are only meaningful to those with resources and that there is a growing gap between access and affordability.<ref>Kirk, Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives (Third Edition) 2004.</ref>

This more nuanced framework of reproductive justice that recognizes that even with the necessary access to reproductive health, there are other influences beyond choice that determine a women's ability to control her bodily autonomy is discussed in ''Battles Over Abortion and Reproductive Rights'' (2017) by Suzanne Staggenborg and Marie B. Skoczylas. They define this concept as detailed below.

* Reproductive Justice: interrelationships among issues, linking reproductive health and rights to other social issues (broader human rights framework)
* White-dominated sectors of the pro-choice movement that focused solely on abortion and downplayed the reality that reproduction is encouraged for some women and discouraged for others{{cn|date=April 2025}}