Cook R J
International Human Rights Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada.
Stud Fam Plann. 1993 Mar-Apr;24(2):73-86.
Neglect of women's reproductive health, perpetuated by law, is part of a larger, systematic discrimination against women. Laws obstruct women's access to reproductive health services. Laws protective of women's reproductive health are rarely or inadequately implemented. Moreover, few laws or policies facilitate women's reproductive health services. Epidemiological evidence and feminist legal methods provide insight into the law's neglect of women's reproductive health and expose long-held beliefs in the law's neutrality that harm women fundamentally. Empirical evidence can be used to evaluate how effectively laws are implemented and whether alternative legal approaches exist that would provide greater protection of individual rights. International human rights treaties, including those discussed in this article, are being applied increasingly to expose how laws that obstruct women's access to reproductive health services violate their basic rights.
法律长期延续对女性生殖健康的忽视，这是对女性更大规模系统性歧视的一部分。法律阻碍女性获得生殖健康服务。保护女性生殖健康的法律很少得到实施或实施不力。此外，很少有法律或政策促进女性生殖健康服务。流行病学证据和女权主义法律方法有助于深入了解法律对女性生殖健康的忽视，并揭示法律中立性这一长期存在的观念如何从根本上伤害女性。实证证据可用于评估法律的实施效果，以及是否存在能更好保护个人权利的替代法律方法。包括本文所讨论的那些国际人权条约，正越来越多地被用于揭示阻碍女性获得生殖健康服务的法律是如何侵犯她们的基本权利的。
