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TY - JOUR
T1 - Food Insecurity
T2 - A Barrier to Reproductive Justice Globally
AU - Fledderjohann, Jasmine
AU - Patterson, Sophie
AU - Owino, Maureen
PY - 2023/6/30
Y1 - 2023/6/30
N2 - Objective: Reproductive Justice identifies three core reproductive rights for all people: (1) the right to not have a child; (2) the right to have a child; and (3) the right to parent children in safe and healthy environments. We aim to illustrate that food insecurity infringes upon on all three of these rights and so is a pressing issue for reproductive justice and for sexual and reproductive health more broadly.Methods: Using a phenomenological approach, we outline potential pathways between food insecurity and reproductive justice.Results: There are numerous potential pathways between food insecurity and reproductive justice, including entry into sexual relationships for material support, links to sexually transmitted infections and infertility, structural violence, prioritization and spending tradeoffs between food and other basic necessities, biological impacts of malnutrition, restricted reproductive choices, population control measures, and social stigma and exclusion. Marginalized people are disproportionately impacted by food insecurity and its consequences, with implications for sexual health and pleasure and for reproductive justice.Conclusions: Meaningful and equitable collaboration between people with lived experience of food insecurity, human rights and reproductive justice activists, and academics is critical to sensitively contextualize this work and mobilize broader social change.
AB - Objective: Reproductive Justice identifies three core reproductive rights for all people: (1) the right to not have a child; (2) the right to have a child; and (3) the right to parent children in safe and healthy environments. We aim to illustrate that food insecurity infringes upon on all three of these rights and so is a pressing issue for reproductive justice and for sexual and reproductive health more broadly.Methods: Using a phenomenological approach, we outline potential pathways between food insecurity and reproductive justice.Results: There are numerous potential pathways between food insecurity and reproductive justice, including entry into sexual relationships for material support, links to sexually transmitted infections and infertility, structural violence, prioritization and spending tradeoffs between food and other basic necessities, biological impacts of malnutrition, restricted reproductive choices, population control measures, and social stigma and exclusion. Marginalized people are disproportionately impacted by food insecurity and its consequences, with implications for sexual health and pleasure and for reproductive justice.Conclusions: Meaningful and equitable collaboration between people with lived experience of food insecurity, human rights and reproductive justice activists, and academics is critical to sensitively contextualize this work and mobilize broader social change.
KW - Reproductive justice
KW - food insecurity
KW - human rights
KW - structural violence
KW - social determinants of health
KW - reproductive choice
KW - marginalization
U2 - 10.1080/19317611.2023.2201841
DO - 10.1080/19317611.2023.2201841
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 296
EP - 311
JO - International Journal of Sexual Health
JF - International Journal of Sexual Health
IS - 2
ER -