장애 여성의 재생산권에 대한 고찰

A Study on the Reproductive Rights of women with disabilities

Women with disabilities have never played a leading role in our society. As women on the one hand and as persons with disabilities on the other hand, they have lived under the double burden of discriminations. In our society, reproductive right has always discussed how working women’s maternity right is to be protected or in which condition women can exercise her decision making power in abortion or bearing. On the contrary, in case of women with disabilities the problem of reproductive right shows different aspects compared with that in women without disabilities. Concretely, the most difficult problem in reproductive right of women with disabilities is that her right of choice for conception, bearing and rearing is often interrupted by other person or a nation. This paper aims at two things. First one is how to understand the meaning of reproductive right as a legal concept. Second one is how it is secured by legal system, in case that reproductive right of women with disabilities were interrupted by other person or a nation.