Latinas Vs Latinos

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Elizabeth Martinez points out, "Latinas' views on reproductive rights are often more radical than Anglo women's views and not 'conservative,' as some people say, because their definition of choice requires more profound social change than just abortion rights or preventing pregnancy." (UR chap 12)

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Totaling more than 40 million, Latinas and Latinos are members of communities and families with various citizenship statuses, great intergrational differences in acculturation, identity formation, and socioeconomic status. With the 2000 Census, Latinos became the largest minority group in the US, at 12.5 percent of the population, and are expected to comprise 25 percent of the US population.

They are at high risk from effects of teratogenic …show more content…
In South Carolina, an abortion must be performed by a licensed physician. (H&H)

orty percent of Latinos in the United States are foreign-born.2 Without a doubt Latinas are the fastest growing ethnic group in the country and U.S.Latinas al ready account for one in every seven U.S.women of reproductive age.3 (H&H)

Proposition 187 in California targeted poor, pregnant Mexican immigrant women, blaming them for the state's and the nation's problems Mexican women were depicted as purposely crossing the border to give birth in publicly financed county hospitals to gain citizenship status and thus eligibility for public assistance. (URch12)

NLHO opposed Proposition 187, an initiative to end all health, educational, and social services for undocumented immigrants.
Despite massive resistance, voters passed the act and the first executive order Governor Pete Wilson made was to discontinue prenatal care to undocumented immigrants. However, the law was eventually prevented from being enacted, largely due to critics who challenged its constitutionality. Proposition 187 provides a powerful example of why it is important to have a Latina voice dedicated to supporting reproductive rights. …show more content…
government has not ratified it. CEDAW protects the right of women to "decide freely the number and spacing of their children and to have the access to the information, education, and means to enable them to exercise these rights." We feel this right most fully encompasses the reproductive justice that people in prison seek. In addition, the right to family is recognized in several treaties, including Article 23 of the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights (ICCPR) that the United States ratified in 1992. Article 23 states, "the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state." General Comment 19, expanding on this right, states that "the right to found a family implies, in principle, the possibility to procreate and live together." The abuses we describe below represent violations of Article 23 of ICCPR and of Article 16 of CEDAW, as well as Article 7 of the ICCPR, which prohibits torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. In addition, many abuses represent violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which does not require a showing of intent, solely disparate impact.
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