Birth Justice: From Obstetric Violence to Abolitionist Care

This collection of essays argues that reproductive justice-currently undermined by criminalized abortion, racial disparities in mortality, and obstetric violence-requires abolishing authoritative institutional and state control over reproduction in favor of community-based relational care practices that ensure bodily self-determination.

Rodante van der Waal is a midwife and philosopher. Their academic articles have been published in a.o. Frontiers, Angelaki, Agenda, Feminist Anthropology, Feminist Theory, PLoS ONE, Social Text, Birth, Technophany Nursing Ethics and Violence Against Women.