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  • Environmental Health Science
  • Reproductive Biology
  • Social Sciences

Background:

  • Human reproduction is increasingly understood as intertwined with environmental issues.
  • Reproductive politics and environmental politics are converging domains.
  • Growing awareness of environmental impacts on reproductive health and development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To map the overlap between reproductive and environmental politics.
  • To examine the emergence of environmental reproductive justice frameworks.
  • To analyze the biomedical and critical engagement with reproduction in environmental contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of reproductive and environmental politics.
  • Analysis of intersectional environmental reproductive justice frameworks.
  • Examination of biomedical research on early-life environments and critical engagement with reproductive experiences.

Main Results:

  • An intersectional environmental reproductive justice framework is emerging in activism and science.
  • The environment of reproduction and development is a growing focus of biomedical research and intervention.
  • Researchers are critically engaging with the reproductive subject in environmentally challenging times.

Conclusions:

  • Rethinking the intersections of reproductive and environmental politics is crucial.
  • Environmental factors significantly influence human reproduction and development.
  • Interdisciplinary approaches are needed to address these complex interactions.