apersnicketylemon:

Reproductive injustice is more than just abortion access.

-It’s the treatment of pregnant prisoners
-It’s the forced sterilization of women of colour and getting the paperwork signed by sneaking the paperwork into other forms while the person is in labour and medicated from that
-It’s the inability for white women to get sterilized at all when they ask repeatedly, even when it will kill them if they do not, even if they’re already sterile and the procedure would only remove pain, not the ability to give birth as a result
-It’s the inaccessibility to healthcare for low-income families
-It’s the inaccessibility to birth control for low-income people
-It’s the inaccessibility to comprehensive sex-ed
-It’s the likelihood that a woc will not receive pain medication of any kind while giving birth, or will receive it later in the delivery process than a white person
-It’s the doctor after doctor who will ignore what the pregnant person wants for their own care during the labour process, even in cases where the doctor decides something that is not medically necessary (No, not all c-sections are medically necessary, neither are all episiotomies)
-It’s the huge number of people who suffer from post birt trauma, who are treated so poorly by their doctors that they suffer actual PTSD symptoms from giving birth.

All of these are a part of reproductive injustice. They’re all real issues real people face daily. And they need to change.