Research Guides: Reproductive Justice: Reproductive Rights

Websites

Supreme Court Docket Search
The Supreme Court’s docket system contains information about cases, both pending and decided, that have been filed at the Court. The docket provided here contains complete information regarding the status of cases filed since the beginning of the 2001 Term.
Govtrack - Abortion cases
Use this page to browse bills in the U.S. Congress related to the subject Abortion, as determined by the Library of Congress.
Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights works to protect and advance abortion rights around the world by removing restrictive laws and policies, promoting measures to improve access to safe and legal abortion, and countering efforts to undermine access to abortion care.
WomenWatch
Directory of UN resources on gender and women's issues
CDC Reproductive Health
CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health is the focal point for issues related to reproductive health, maternal health, and infant health.

Reproductive Rights As Human Rights by Zakiya Luna
ISBN: 9781479852024
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
An indispensable read, Reproductive Rights as Human Rights provides a much-needed intersectional perspective on the modern-day reproductive justice movement.
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
ISBN: 9780679758693
Publication Date: 1998-12-29
Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women.
Undivided Rights by Jael Silliman; Marlene Gerber Fried; Loretta Ross
ISBN: 9781608466177
Publication Date: 2016-05-10
Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice on their own behalf.

Selected Studies

The following list is provided paywall free from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society until November 2022 after you will need to be a Purdue affiliate (student, faculty, staff).

Ruhl, Lealle. (2002). “Dilemmas of the Will: Uncertainty, Reproduction, and the Rhetoric of Control.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 27(3), 641-663.

O’Donnell, Kelly Suzanne. (2017). “Reproducing Jane: Abortion Stories and Women’s Political Histories.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 43(1), 77-96.

Zavella, Patricia. (2017). “Intersectional Praxis in the Movement for Reproductive Justice: The Respect ABQ Women Campaign.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 42(2), 509-533.

Norwood, Carolette. (2021). “Misrepresenting Reproductive Justice: A Black Feminist Critique of ‘Protecting Black Life’.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 46(3), 715-741.

Julie F. Kay, Kathryn Kolbert, Martha F. Davis, Lisa Maldonado, Robin Marty, and Rosalind P. Petchesky, Short Takes on Controlling Women by Julie F. Kay and Kathryn Kobert (2021).

Goodwin, Michele, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Essay, “The Body Politic: Representation and Reproductive Feminist Jurisprudence” (2021).

Byllye Avery and Susan Reverby, Ask a Feminist on the Past and Future of Reproductive Justice (2019).