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s Susan L. Smith summarized the book as "a well-written, passionate and enlightening exploration of the impact of racial politics on reproduction". Smith found that
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being available to pregnant people as a right and opposition to state funding for abortions for women on benefits. Overall, Roberts advocates that reproductive liberty be defined in terms of freedom from social coercion, and the provision of material support for women of color to exercise their right
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reviewed the book as "readable by and accessible to general and academic audiences". She praised that
Roberts wrote with "great compassion and sensitivity, presenting multiple perspectives". Karen D. Zivi said that although Roberts "made a brilliant start at illustrating the workings of a raced and
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disproportionately affected black single mothers, who had higher rates of poverty. Roberts also describes the prosecution of drug usage among pregnant mothers under the crime of drug trafficking to a minor—their fetus. Roberts cites a study which found that Black women were ten times more likely to
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found the book "invaluable as a feminist resource in any classroom". The review praised
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summarized the book as "brilliant, controversial, and profoundly valuable". The reviewer praised that "Roberts's arguments are especially convincing because they are so well researched and thoroughly dissected" and found that her "knowledge of her subject is total".
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Roberts argues that institutional violence against black women and their reproductive autonomy in modern
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could be better redirected to improve reproductive rights of a greater number of women. For example, Roberts advocates that greater resources be dedicated to reducing common causes of infertility, such as
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Finally, Roberts outlines initiatives to change the treatment of black women in
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classed maternal ideology" in punitive law enforcement and conception of reproductive rights, she should have been more critical of "her own notion of reproductive liberty". A writer for
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used for birth control. She documents the court-ordered implantation of
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