Bodies, power and property in transnational reproductive economies

Elizabeth Lanphier (Department of Pediatrics, Philosophy, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Cincinnati): Reproductive Justice and Repara-tions: Property, Trauma, Inheritance

Reparations for reproductive injustice in the form of property transfer present a potential puzzle for reproduc-tive justice if, as I have previously argued, property and its lineages rooted in unjust acquisition and transfer run counter to the aims of reproductive justice. Given the problems of property, I reject a self-ownership ac-count of reproductive rights, which perpetuates patriarchal and colonial oppression and extends rights to some while withholding them from others. Yet another inherited form of injustice is intergenerational trauma, sources of which include patriarchy, colonialism, and reproductive injustice. In this talk I propose a trauma informed approach to reparations in response to reproductive injustice that 1) resists property-based accounts of reproductive rights and self-ownership and the unjust mechanisms of property inheritance; 2) attends to the injustices of inherited intergenerational trauma; and 3) offers a plausible model of shared and collective responsibility for past and present harm.

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