Charles Howard wrote:

> ...
>
> I think the time has probably come when the regulation of
> reproduction needs to be an issue of talk and debate. For
> example, I don't think a woman has been imprisoned should
> be entitled to become pregnant while she is in prison.
> Would you care to respond to that example?
>

I do see now that I cannot simply preclude "regulation of
reproduction" in the manner I previously suggested. As for this
example, however, I don't think it will fit the topic you proposed.

No woman is entitled to become pregnant, period. Now, as for the
fact that women do have the right to attempt to become pregnant,
through cooperation with those who might impregnate her, this right
would naturally be denied as a side-effect of the denial of freedom
of movement and association that typically comes with imprisonment.
When a woman is precluded from becoming pregant because she is
imprisoned, this isn't a matter of "regulating reproduction" any
more than incidentally preventing her from making pilgrimage to
Mecca would be rightly called regulating religion.


Tracy Harms