Reproductive Justice

I thoroughly enjoyed Cara Page and Mia Mingus' talk on Reproductive Rights, Health, and Justice.  I found it incredibly interesting how these terms signify different things when usually they are usually combined and thought of as only one idea.  Through SPARK, these women seemed to be primarily focused on Reproductive Justice where they look at the causes of the underlying problem and then proceed to search for a solution.  One of the most important concepts they brought up was Eugenics and the question of who determines who should reproduce and who is considered inferior or superior.  It was interesting to see a written down list of the institutions and other systems of control that would that would promote or prevent women from having children.  When we think about Eugenics as being controversial, we usually only consider the women who are fighting for the right to reproduce, usually minorities.  An interesting case that they brought up, is: what about the women who are encouraged to reproduce but want to prevent having children?  I had never thought about it like this because eugenics is usually thought of in terms of the women who are being persecuted through sterilization and other means of population control.  The media and politics constantly bring up the controversial point of abortion and whether it is actually killing a person, but it is never thought of in light of controlling the population. I never thought that by preventing abortion, the government would be ensuring that women who they want to reproduce continue to do so.