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Overview: Food insecurity involves difficulties accessing enough safe and nutritious food to support a healthy life. This session explores the main ways that food insecurity threatens the three core rights underlying the Reproductive Justice movement. These are the right to not have a child, the right to have a child, and the right to parent children with dignity in safe and healthy environments. By limiting the availability of food, placing food in competition with other costs (such as reproductive healthcare), and otherwise leaving women with ‘choiceless choices’, food insecurity is a threat to Reproductive Justice, especially for multiply marginalised women.

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Content warnings: May include difficult discussions of poverty and its impacts on women and children's lives, including issues such as incarceration, restricted access to abortion, and experiences of violence in the home.

 

Keywords: Food insecurity, Reproductive Justice, inequalities, choiceless choices, reproductive rights

 

Jasmine's input is in association with colleagues Sophie Patterson and Maureen Owino. Jasmine is part of the Food Equity project at Lancaster University: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/foodequity/

You can find our more about them on Twitter: @JFledderjohann1 @Food_Equity

Sophie Patterson: @DrSPatterson

Maureen Owino: Twitter @achiengowino

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