More than a Choice: A Progressive Vision for Reproductive Health and Rights

By Jessica Arons | September 13, 2006

More than a Choice: A Progressive Vision for Reproductive Health and Rights, a report released today by the Center for American Progress, presents a new vision of reproductive rights that broadens the current discourse beyond the stagnant abortion debate. Progressives can expand the definition of reproductive rights by equally embracing the rights to have or not have children—with a partner of one’s choosing and in a time and manner that honors one’s conscience and life circumstances—and by placing abortion within its appropriate context as one of a wide range of important reproductive rights issues.

For more information read:

• The executive summary (PDF)
• The full report (PDF)

 

Event Video

• Intro by Shira Saperstein; filling in for Melody Barnes
• Jessica Arons speaks about her paper
• Dr. Pablo Rodriguez
• Rhonda Waller, Ph.D
• Malika Saada Saar, Esq.
• Reverend Debra Haffner
• Q and A