pregnancy rights
Expectant mother safeguards
Pregnancy rights are legal protections for pregnant people, covering areas like workplace accommodation, medical decision-making, and access to reproductive healthcare.
The term appears in debates over employment discrimination, parental leave, and abortion access: The new law expanded pregnancy rights to include lactation breaks.
What constitutes pregnancy rights varies dramatically by jurisdiction and political perspective.
- reproductiveRelated to producing offspring
- reproductive justiceBodily autonomy in childbearing
- abortionEnding a pregnancy
- bodily autonomyControl over one's physique
- bodily integrityControl over one's form
choice · fertility · family planning · maternal · parental leave · healthcare · women's health · contraception · clinic · protest · legislation · trimester · consent · advocacy · fetus · prenatal · motherhood · childbirth
- Body Rightsbodily autonomy, medical consent, self-ownership, medical autonomy, personal space
- workplace rightsjob protection, job security, workplace safety, workplace accommodation, employment law
- sexismsexism, gender discrimination, sex discrimination, gender bias, male privilege
pregnancy, rights, pregnant, pregnancies, right, rightly, rightful, rightfully, righteous