Advocating for Abolition in Health Law: A Theory and Praxis to Liberate Black Incarcerated Women
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Published:2023
Issue:1
Volume:51
Page:196-207
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ISSN:1073-1105
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Container-title:Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J. Law. Med. Ethics
Abstract
AbstractThe prison-industrial complex has historically operated as a mechanism for social control generally and as a tool to restrict women’s reproductive capacities specifically. Reproductive justice is a domain within the practice of health law. However, health law as currently practiced is ill-equipped to understand how the carceral state functions as a structural determinant of health or how legacies of oppression have facilitated the abridgment of incarcerated women’s reproductive capacities.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Health Policy,General Medicine,Issues, ethics and legal aspects