Law in Contemporary Society

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Decommodifying Reproductive Health: A Rights-based Approach

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Decommodifying Reproductive Health: Building Resilience Through A Rights-based Approach

 A woman’s reproductive system is perhaps the single most valuable thing for society’s productivity, for it enables the continuation of the labor force. Throughout history, reproductive health has followed the needs of labor capital as opposed to a steady progression towards reproductive autonomy. Indian famine conditions energized the neo-Malthusian birth control movement across the British Empire (Sreenivas, 2015); in the 1960s, the “population bomb” thesis led to various aggressive birth control policies (Felitti, 2022). Most recently, against the backdrop of demographic decline, Hungary introduced a tax exemption scheme for mothers — temporary for one child, and lifelong for two or more — to “encourage family growth” and foster a "family-centered economy.” (Anadolu Ajansı, 2025) Hungary’s literal equation of reproductive labor with monetary value demonstrates that the goal of reproductive policies is often not to advance autonomy, but to keep capitalism on its feet.

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