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Soft Sterilization, Criminal Justice Contracts and Pyshophysiological…
Soft Sterilization
Reproductive Justice and Intersectionality
Reproductive control has been motivated by the desire to uphold white supremacy, heteropatriachy, and capitalism
traditional reproductive rights movements have focused only on the right not to have children
historically only considered the interests of middle class and wealthy white women
Reproductive justice- "purposely controversial in that it disrupts the dehumanizing status quo of reproductive politics"
3 core human rights: the right to have a child under the conditions of one's own choosing, the right not to have a child using birth control, aborition, or abstinence, and the right to parent children in a safe and healthy environment free from violence by individuals or the state
Intersectional perspective is necessary to understand current policies and politics
current policies often based in the eugenics movement
Legal involuntary sterilization
more than 63,000 people were classified to be involuntarily sterilized during the eugenics movement
1932- 3921 women involuntarily sterilized
Reproductive control
use of the female body to create the next generation of workers
Black women- during slavery there was an incentive to produce laborers from black women. During reconstruction and Jim Crow, black fertility is no longer valued and begins to be characterized as transgressive
White women face barriers to sterilization while it is encouraged (sometimes required if they receive benefits) for women of color
Criminal Justice Contracts and Pyshophysiological Functioning in Early Adulthood
Incarceration as a driver of health disparities
associations between incarceration and physiological inflammation
link between chronic exposure to stressful events and environment/systemic inflammation and poor immune function
physical and emotional environment of prisons and jails activate stress responses
stigma and damage to social relationships may exacerbate psychophysiological dysregualtion
individuals exposed to higher risk of infection
Mental health effects
extend beyond incarceration sentence
strong associations between arrests and risk of depression
Greater risk of inflammation and depression for individuals incarcerated for longer than one year
criminal justice contacts as drivers of racial health disparities
higher rates of incarceration for black individuals