Reproductive Justice Knowledge Production in the Post- Dobbs Crisis

While research on reproduction has historically been marginalized in many disciplines, the post-Dobbs political crisis has brought renewed attention to the importance of understanding reproduction. In the background, a growing academic attention to the expansive reproductive justice framework has produced a range of projects and institutionalized efforts under the name. This article focuses on pre- and post-Dobbs reproductive justice enterprises in university settings to consider how they articulate their motivations and operationalize their named interest in reproductive justice. Implications of post-Dobbs enterprises focusing primarily on topics traditionally associated with reproductive rights, rather than expansive reproductive justice, are considered. How the current political environment simultaneously makes reproduction research more tenuous and suggests a need for expansive reproductive justice to be pursued concludes the article.