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
15 Pages Posted: 27 Dec 2011
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: 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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