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The article discusses the movement of reproductive justice in the U.S. in the light of the end of Roe v. Wade, which articulated a fundamental right to an abortion and created a state interest in potential life using a trimester framework. It explains the basic tenets of reproductive justice and its difference from reproductive rights. It also examines the possibility of achieving reproductive justice and upholding abortion rights following the end of Roe.

I. INTRODUCTION Technology drives societal transformation in multiple realms, including in the world of making babies. The story of assisted reproduction is sometimes told as a Disney fairy tale in [...]

"The major threats from coming advances in reproductive technology are not medical but political, social and philosophical." (1) Debate and concern about the ability to manipulate human life through the [...]

The article reports that Reproductive Justice movement coined by African Americans women who were interested in articulating principles of reproductive rights and a focus on abortion, as discusses in University of Kansas. Topics include adequate enforcement of laws against pregnancy discrimination in workplaces dominated by low-wage workers with affordable housing; and law reform drive clinics out of business and create insurmountable obstacles to abortion care.

An introduction is presented which discusses articles within the issue on the themes of abortion, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and stigma in the U.S.

This article offers a modem approach to evaluating the right to non-coital reproduction that centers on the concept of procreative pluralism. Using lessons taught by reproductive justice scholars and advocates, the article reframes reproductive autonomy and reproductive equality so as to avoid the pitfalls of each and offers a justice account of why constitutional protection of assisted reproduction is critical. The article argues that the fundamental right to procreate as protected by the Constitution includes a fundamental right to use assisted reproduction. Unlike other scholarship, the article rejects the basis of this right as liberty/autonomy or equality standing alone and posits that a justice framework is best for protecting and balancing the procreative interests at play when people use assisted reproduction. Given the fundamental rights argument, the article argues that justice requires extensive protection of the right to procreate and exacting scrutiny of legislative attempts to interfere with that right. It goes beyond other scholars who have made this claim by also determining that the state may have positive obligations to provide some people with access to assisted reproduction services. To reconcile the importance of the procreative right with the compelling nature of state interests in procreation, the article offers a two-tiered system of constitutional review of the fundamental right to noncoital procreation in which those who wish to procreate and parent receive greater protection than those who wish to procreate for profit. Finally, the article articulates principles for regulation based on the structure of a two-tiered right and offers ideas for how to reconcile the fundamental rights analysis with legitimate justice concerns about potential harms to individuals and society from the use of assisted reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Discrimination in Baby Making: The Unconstitutional Treatment of Prospective Parents Through Surrogacy" by professor Andrea B. Carroll in the December 2013 issue.

The article focuses on the protection of access to cross-border fertility care (CBFC) in the U.S. Topics include the need for national harmonization of the fertility industry in the U.S., how the diversity of laws leads to forum shopping, and equality in reproductive laws. Information is provided on medical tourism, which is when people travel to destinations for medical care or treatment.