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Concept Map 10 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Framed as Empowerment" LARCs are promoted to incarcerated women as giving them "control" over their futures
      - Reality: in carceral settings, "choice" in constrained - women may feel pressured to accept LARC for leniency, privileges, or due to lack of alternatives
      - Mechanism of Soft Control: Long-acting contraceptives allow the state to regulate reproduction long after a woman is released - extending carceral control beyond prison walls
- - - - U.S. history of using sterilization as a tool for controlling marginalized populations
      - practice still persists in subtle forms today
    - - incarcerated women may face subtle coercion to accept LARC
      - challenges notion of true voluntariness
    - - informed consent
      - bodily autonomy
      - potential for abuse within the carceral system
- - - - institutional pressure under guise of "voluntary" choice
      - managing reproduction as part of population control in marginalized groups
    - - echoes of eugenics and forced sterilization
      - women of color, poor women, and disabled women disproportionately targeted
    - - race, gender, class, and incarceration intersect to make women in prisons vulnerable to "soft coercion"
      - power dynamic in incarceration settings question the voluntariness of "choice" in accepting LARC
    - - framed as empowering or pragmatic
      - controlling bodies deemed "risky" or "expensive" to society