Women Of Color Analysis

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The article “Women of Color Deserve a Voice in the Debate over Planned Parenthood” by Ijeoma Oluo, states that women of color have the right to become pregnant, right to prevent pregnancy, and the right to raise the baby. The battle over abortion rights is more heated than it has been in decades. This is a dangerous problem, because women of color are being ignored by many in the mainstream abortion rights movement, they are also being exploited by the anti-abortion movement.
The section on the right to prevent pregnancy talks about how women of color have the right to have an abortion or take birth control pills. A woman has the right to make decisions regarding her own body. Women are allowed to have access to all safe, effective means of …show more content…

It shows that women should come together and fight for their rights. This relates to the article “What is Reproductive Justice” by Price, who states that women of color need to be encouraged to come together and be involved in the political movement for reproductive freedom. Therefore, the main goal of the reproductive justice movement is the right to have an abortion, the right to have children, and the right to parent these children. Reproductive Justice is a positive approach that links sexuality, health, and human rights to social justice movements by placing abortion and reproductive health issues in the larger context of the well-being and health of …show more content…

The article is correlated with the civil rights since the article mainly talks about the women of color rather than white women. It is also linked to the social rights since many women of color had less access to medical care than whites. There were fewer doctors available in minority neighborhoods and those women who had access to doctors often reported discrimination or poor service. The article is connected to the sexual rights because women of color are fighting for their reproductive rights. It is their choice either to have children or

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