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Remembering Reproductive Rights for Prisoners

Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check on March 31, 2008 - 9:43am
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The number of women in prison is growing at a staggering rate. We must include the challenges and issues incarcerated women face to reproductive health care access as we advocate for reproductive justice for all.


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Minimums Matter: RH Access in New York Jails

Rachel Roth, RH Reality Check on March 4, 2008 - 12:07pm
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A report released today by the New York Civil Liberties Union discovers that access to reproductive health care services for women in New York jails is unregulated and lacks minimum standards.


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Mothering as a Reproductive Right

Malika Sadaa Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights on December 11, 2007 - 10:18am
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Where is the reproductive rights community in the over-incarceration of mothers and the almost systematic severance in the mother and child relationship as a result of maternal incarceration?


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Powerless in Prison: Sexual Abuse Against Incarcerated Women

Nicole Summer, RH Reality Check on December 11, 2007 - 10:17am
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Surviving a sexual assault and then navigating the health care system to receive adequate counseling and reproductive medical attention is daunting enough for those who walk freely on the outside. For women in prison, these hurdles can seem insurmountable.


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What Do Prisons Have to Do with Reproductive Rights?

Rachel Roth, RH Reality Check on December 11, 2007 - 10:16am
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What do prisons have to do with reproductive rights? As it turns out, plenty. Prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities are part of an expanding array of institutions that shape women's reproductive lives.


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