Assignment task:
Explain how the state (and moral entrepreneurs) try to control reproduction of the marginalized ( through sterilization, forced implants, not providing care to incarcerated women). Restrictions on access to abortion could be seen as an almost opposite effort to control-that is, to force marginalized women to reproduce. Do you agree? What might explain these opposing efforts.
The chapter black women, feminism, and reproductive rights discusses the difference responses of physicians, the state (e.g., policies, funding), and individual women to sterilization for white women and women of color. How do these views illustrate the state's investment in the social control of reproduction for women of color? Also, how do the differential views of black women and white women challenge a unified "feminist agenda around reproductive choice?