Reproductive Intrusions: Evidence and Ethics

Feminist bioethicists have long shed light on the indignities and injustice of reproductive intrusions, be they coerced gestation or forced interventions during pregnancy and birth. Writing about the aftermath and implications of the Dobbs decision, Minkoff, Vullikanti, and Marshall (2024) reemphasize that compelling a person to carry a pregnancy to term and forcing a pregnant person to undergo unwanted interventions are two sides of the same coin: with pregnancy, a person’s liberty is severely circumscribed in both cases