Reproductive Right as an Integral Part of the Human Rights
The reproductive rights, alongside with the right to freedom, privacy and other human rights are the inseparable part of the human rights, but from the point of view of law everything is not so evident, as most of the reproductive rights are rather permissive than mandatory. At the Cairo Conference some of the members of the UN made formal reservations concerning reproductive rights. Peru, Honduras, Argentina and other countries have adopted some variations of the reproductive rights, though only in some of these countries they have a power of official laws.
The program of the Cairo Conference was the first official document, which gave the definition of the reproductive health and rights. It listed the main reproductive rights and tried to give necessary definitions and explanations.
The reproductive rights include:
• the control of birth rate
• the right to have a quality reproductive health care
• the right to have free reproductive choices
• the right to have access to reproductive information
• the right to have safe abortions and as many children as you wish
• protection from coerced sterilization
• protection from offending and harmful ceremonies and rituals, such as genital cutting and coerced defloration.