ABSTRACT
The capacity for all people to decide whether, when, and with whom to create a family in safety and dignity hinges on reproductive justice. As a critical framework and organizing strategy, reproductive justice illuminates structures that shape various experiences of pregnancy and parenting and challenges the reproductive rights movement to take a broader, more intersectional view of its aims and scope. This entry provides an overview of the history of reproductive justice, its central tenets and principles, and the defining challenges and horizons of possibility for the early twenty-first century.
