Reproductive Rights, Health and Justice: Law and Policy

Section 1

1 hour

The Criminalization of Reproduction

Mary R Ziegler

Today, the criminalization of people involved in certain reproductive decisions is a defining feature of the political landscape, but it was not always that way. In this section, we will consider why criminalization became so central and what alternatives exist to it.

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