Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

reproductive rights

A person's rights relating to the control of his or her procreative activities; specif., the cluster of civil liberties relating to pregnancy, abortion, and sterilization, esp. the personal bodily rights of women in their decision whether to become pregnant or bear a child. ( The phrase includes the idea of being able to make reproductive decisions free from discrimination, coercion, or violence. Humanrights scholars increasingly consider reproductive rights to be protected by international human-rights law.