Politicizing Reproduction and Reproductive Justice: An Approach from the Perspective of Vulnerability

Abstract This article aims to examine the fight for reproductive rights and the new demands for reproductive justice from the feminist approach of vulnerability. This paper is divided into three sections. The first section analyzes the feminist ‘vulnerability turn’ with its dual notion of vulnerability as both an existential condition and a sociopolitical constitution. The second section examines the political demands for reproductive justice that have emerged since the 1990s thanks to Black intersectional feminism in the United States. The third section concludes with a defense of the political dimension of vulnerability as a foundation for a radical reproduction policy capable of implementing the demands of reproductive justice. In short, we will explain how the feminist approach to vulnerability enables the politicization of reproductive social relations. This provides a framework for new and emerging demands for reproductive justice in the future.