Legal Definitions - reproductive rights

Reproductive rights refer to a person's legal and constitutional rights to control their procreative activities. This includes the right to make decisions about pregnancy, abortion, and sterilization without facing discrimination, coercion, or violence.

For example, a woman has the right to decide whether or not to become pregnant and to have access to safe and legal abortion services. She also has the right to choose to be sterilized if she does not want to have children in the future. These decisions should be made freely and without interference from others.

Reproductive rights are protected by international human-rights law, which recognizes the importance of personal bodily autonomy and the right to make decisions about one's own body.