User:Salvuhdor/African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom

African-American women have been put in the forefront of reproductive rights in the United States as they have had a history of their reproductive freedoms stripped from them in the times of slavery. During slavery in the United States, African-American women were used to reproduce more property for their slave owners, creating a bigger work force for the slave owners. In today's society, there has been an expanding popularity in biological labor where women (mostly consisting of women of color) offer themselves to surrogate parents in exchange for an undisclosed amount of money. This has shifted a change in reproductive slavery where it was forced upon African-American slaves to African-American women using their bodies to make ends meet through surrogacy. African-American women's involvement in the reproductive freedom movement was pivotal for women to get their right for reproductive freedom in the United States.