Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (Dr. Heather Wurtz)

What do sexual and reproductive health and rights (SPHR) services cover?

• access to contraception

• fertility and infertility care

• maternal and perinatal health

• prevention and treatment of STIs

• protection from sexual and gender-based violence

• education on safe and healthy relationships

Access to SRH is a….

human right!

What is reproductive justice?

addresses the social, economic, and political conditions that affect reproductive freedom

• black feminist scholarship in the 1990s

What is reproductive justice’s goal?

dismantle systems of oppression

What is stratified reproduction?

“certain individuals’ reproduction is supported and nurtured…while others’ is devalued and undermined” (Lonergan 2024).

• intersectional: stratified according to multiple interacting social structures and institutions

• multi-scalar: operating at multiple scales, within different national and local contexts

Reproductive anatomy of immigrant women in Texas

undermined by overlapping systems of criminalization and neglect

What is important to know about SRH inequities?

Demonstrating how SRH inequities are produced by policies that criminalize or restrict mobility is key to:

• reframing border control

• deportability

• tranportation challenges as public health issues

• fostering more expansive and collaborative efforts for advancing reproductive justice