Throughout history women have been fighting for their right to vote, their right to work, and in the 1960s and in the 1970s women began their fight for reproduction justice. The first break through for this movement was the creation of birth control. The leader of this movement was Margaret Sanger and she began this journey because she had to witness her mother die at an early age from giving birth to eighteen children. Sanger set out to create a pill that would help women control pregnancy. The creation of the pill changed many women’s lives. It allowed women for the first time to have a choice. Women could decide if they wanted to have children and when they wanted to have children. The pill opened up many doors for women and reproductive justice began to take flight. Reproductive justice, “involves being able to have safe and affordable birthing and parenting options; reliable, …show more content…
Reproductive justice has progressed in so many ways and one that helped this issue bloom was Roe vs. Wade. In Roe vs. Wade the court ruled that not allowing an abortion violates that ninth amendment, which is the right to privacy. It was not the government’s business in deciding what women do with their bodies. After this court case, women didn’t have to be married to have privacy from the government, now, single women had this privacy right as well. After this court case so many great things happened for women through reproductive justice and contraceptive methods. First, women were able to address health concerns. Women no longer had to fear dying while giving birth and didn’t have to worry about constantly being pregnant. Second, women could actually have a say in how many children they wanted to have and when they wanted to have children. Third, women could participate in society. Women could get a job and hold