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Examining reproductive rights historically reveals that women’s bodies are critically contested sites of governance and regulation by the state and other societal forces. However, key issues of access to reproductive rights and vulnerability to abuse are even more contested in the experiences of minority women, many of whom face the twin realities of their rights being denied, and therefore their agency being thwarted.
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Trehan, N., Crowhurst, I. (2006). Minority Groups and Reproductive Rights. In: Women’s Reproductive Rights. Women’s Rights in Europe Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554993_6
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