User:Dml108

Hello! I am a first-year student at Rice University studying social policy analysis. I am interested in environmental justice, conservation, immigration rights, gender, and human rights policies.

I am proposing the following topic for my PJHC course assignment. To see the changes that I am working on, please refer to my sand box.

User:Dml108/Reproductive rights in Latin America

Reproductive rights in Latin America

The pre-existing Wikipedia article on reproductive rights in Latin America is focused on the programs and methods currently at use to improve reproductive rights in Latin America. Mostly comprised of developing countries, Latin American women face many injustices, including a lack of bodily autonomy in many places. This issue is close to my heart because my family is from Mexico, but we don’t visit as much as we’d like to because of how dangerous Latin America is for women. Reproductive rights are an important step to help empower women.

This article is currently considered a Class-C article, so there is a lot of room for improvement. The main issue with this article is that it does not reference individual countries in Latin America. It paints Latin America as one homogenous region when in reality it is a mix of many different countries with their own attitudes and policies on reproductive rights. If I worked on this article, I would investigate the individual countries. I would also dive deeper into the reproductive rights of migrant and indigenous women.


 * 1)  Abarbanell, Linda. “Mexico’s Prospera Program and Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Rights.” Qualitative health research 30.5 (2020): 745–759. Web.
 * 2)  Becker, Davida, and Claudia Diaz Olavarrieta. “Decriminalization of Abortion in Mexico City: The Effects on Women’s Reproductive Rights.” American journal of public health (1971) 103.4 (2013): 590–593. Web.
 * 3)  Drovetta, Raquel Irene. “Safe Abortion Information Hotlines: An Effective Strategy for Increasing Women’s Access to Safe Abortions in Latin America.” Reproductive health matters 23.45 (2015): 47–57. Web.
 * 4)  Encarnación, Omar G. “Latin America’s Abortion Rights Breakthrough.” Journal of democracy 33.4 (2022): 89–103. Web.
 * 5)  Felitti, Karina. “Reproductive Rights and Population Policies in Latin America.” Iconos : publicación de FLACSO-Ecuador 35 (2009): 55–66. Print.
 * 6)  Pilecco, Flávia Bulegon et al. “Abortion and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights for Latin America.” Cadernos de saúde pública 37.6 (2021): e00322320–e00322320. Web.
 * 7)  Reuterswärd, Camilla et al. “Abortion Law Reforms in Colombia and Nicaragua: Issue Networks and Opportunity Contexts.” Development and change 42.3 (2011): 805–831. Web.
 * 8)  Roa, Mónica. “Zika Virus Outbreak: Reproductive Health and Rights in Latin America.” The Lancet (British edition) 387.10021 (2016): 843–843. Web.
 * 9)  Ruibal, Alba. “Using Constitutional Courts to Advance Abortion Rights in Latin America.” International feminist journal of politics 23.4 (2021): 579–599. Web.
 * 10)  Vélez, Ana Cristina González, and Simone G Diniz. “Inequality, Zika Epidemics, and the Lack of Reproductive Rights in Latin America.” Reproductive health matters 24.48 (2016): 57–61. Web.