A Look at Reproductive Rights Behind Bars

The fact that an abortion can cost anywhere around $500 places a considerable strain on an already vulnerable women.  What solidifies the economic challenges of abortion is that four out of five state prison systems require a women to pay for her own abortion. The financial burden is arguably the largest barrier in obtaining a safe abortion as many incarcerated women do not have the means to pay.

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Eugenics in America: Forced Hysterectomies in an ICE Detention Centre

In a U.S. ICE detention centre, Irwin County Detention Centre, migrant women are undergoing forced sterilizations. Approaching this with the skepticism that ICE is hoping for, would dismiss America’s long history of eugenic practices and ask us to not believe the simple abuse of human rights that is now occurring in Georgia.

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