Reproductive health and rights in the COVID-19 era: Why and how are rights and choices still the answer?

[摘要] Amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the concern over the potential ‘baby boom’ or ‘baby bust’ had drawn renewed attention across the globe[123]. However, historically alarmism over fertility rates gave rise to restrictive and coercive policies with an aim of ‘controlling the population’ that violated people's sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). In this perspective, the author argued that whether countries of the world face a COVID-19-induced short-term baby boom or bust, the solution lies in prioritizing the rights and choices of all people, especially their SRHR; not in adopting target-oriented population policies or coercive family planning programs.

[学科分类] 兽医学