‘Reproductive freedom isn’t just about abortion: an interview with Dorothy Roberts’

The scholar discusses why the movement needs to bring reproductive justice out of the margins and into the center

For many women of color, the right to control one's reproductive destiny has always been about much more than the right to abortion.

With the recent loss of the constitutional right to abortion in the US, some reproductive rights advocates are calling for a renewed focus on reproductive justice, a concept developed in the early 1990s by women of color. Reproductive justice stresses not just the right to abortion, but also economic, racial and environmental justice, along with other facets of social equality, as critical to true reproductive freedom.