Going Negative: How Reproductive Rights Discourse Has Been Altered from a Positive to a Negative Rights Framework in Support of 'Women's Rights'

WOMEN’S GLOBAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS, p. 83, Padmini Murthy & Clyde Lanford Smith, eds., Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2009

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Benjamin Mason Meier

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Reilly Anne Dempsey

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: 2009

Abstract

In this chapter, we explore how reproductive rights came to fall under this negative rights framework, examining why this strategy dominated the history of ideas on reproductive health as a human right.

Keywords: legal frameworks, human rights, reproductive health, norm evolution

Suggested Citation

Meier, Benjamin Mason and Dempsey, Reilly Anne, Going Negative: How Reproductive Rights Discourse Has Been Altered from a Positive to a Negative Rights Framework in Support of 'Women's Rights' (2009). WOMEN’S GLOBAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS, p. 83, Padmini Murthy & Clyde Lanford Smith, eds., Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1977060

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