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McGuinness, Sheelagh and Widdows, Heather (2017) Access to basic reproductive rights : global challenges. In: Francis, Leslie, (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics. Oxford University Press, pp. 58-77. ISBN 9780199981878
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Abstract
If women are to have true equality with men, they must be able to control the number of children they have and the time of childbirth. Access to family planning services, particularly safe contraception and abortion, is key to this control and thus must be understood as basic reproductive rights. To disallow such access effectively bars women from attaining equality with men by denying minimal standards of bodily integrity. These rights must be understood not just in terms of noninterference but also in terms of ensuring an enabling environment to access to these services. International human rights norms are an important empowerment tool and are evolving towards protecting basic reproductive rights, but there is still more to be accomplished. An important threat to basic reproductive rights, which must be resisted, is the Global Gag Rule that prohibits funding to reproductive agencies which offer abortion services.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780199981878 | ||||||
Book Title: | The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics | ||||||
Editor: | Francis, Leslie | ||||||
Official Date: | February 2017 | ||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 58-77 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199981878.013.3 | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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