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Reproductive Rights 101

By Tom Head, About.com

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What are Reproductive Rights?

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The most basic right we have is the right to live in our bodies. Our bodies are the most fundamental instruments we have to interact with the world. Governments can legislate or take away our homes, our food, our weapons, our books--but when governments begin to legislate or take away our bodies themselves, or to allow them to be taken away by others, they arrogate the power to control our very identities.

This is an illustrated guide to your reproductive system--and the way governments have both conspicuously regulated it and conspicuously failed to protect it.

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