Research Paper on:
Reproductive Rights and the Feminist Debate

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seems that the issues surrounding abortion and reproduction in general are those that will forever fuel the minds of philosophers and social activists alike. Contemporary feminist thought regarding a  womans right to control her own reproduction is at the center of much of the debate which results. Even the feminist themselves, however, are sometimes divided in regard to  the views on reproduction and issues such as abortion. Indeed, the feminist debate on reproductive rights is entwined with such issues as autonomy, privacy, and rights, issues it seems  which no collective stance will ever be firmly reached. Sometimes the feminist debate seems most heated in regard to issues such  as abortion and birth control technologies, other times is seems most heated in regard to attempts by governments to take away the reproductive rights either through the implementation of laws  restricting the number of children a woman is allowed or through acts as reprehensible as forced sterilization. Feminist fall on both sides of these issues. While they insist  that only they should have control over their bodies they sometimes concede that there is room for debate regarding a womans right to continue to overpopulate a world whose ecology  is already in serious danger. Feminist also vary on the issues of technological forms of birth control and the appropriateness of such recent technological developments as partial birth abortion.  Obviously, the issues surrounding reproductive rights are always complex regardless of the societal and political setting. Feminist believe that reproductive autonomy is  a right. This autonomy is the right to decide the type of birth control to employ, if any, and the right to undergo an abortion if one is desired.