Sentences with phrase «autonomy over their body»

It's difficult to balance what they want (and teach them autonomy over their body) while simultaneously making sure they get everything they need.

She believes that every person should have complete autonomy over their body and she aims to equip mothers with the tools to exercise that autonomy in their childbirth experiences.

«Women deserve complete autonomy over their bodies and reproductive decisions.

Robyn Lawley, the first plus - size model to be featured in Sports Illustrated (though the whole «plus - size» part has been debated), is standing up for all women's autonomy over their bodies.

The basis of the ruling was on two main principles: — There is insufficient proximity between the physician and the potential child, who is not a separate legal entity until it is born — There is a unique relationship between a woman and her potential child, and the law specifically recognizes a woman's complete autonomy over her body

The covenant further discriminates against and penalizes women for exercising autonomy over their bodies in choosing to have an abortion,» Mangat explains.

Not exact matches

The notion of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own bodies» leaves us with an unrealistic sense of human power and an exaggerated sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions.

«This approach undermines organ donation as a genuine gift and goes against the consensus that human beings have autonomy over their own bodies.»

In many countries around the world, women are being denied the most basic human right of autonomy over their own bodies.

Women have autonomy over their own bodies so decide for themselves how to feed their babies but it can be very hard to carry a specific intention when the environment is unsupportive.

Just the sheer fact of my lack of physical autonomy — the fact that I sleep with tiny humans snuggled up to me (and all over me), that my body doesn't look the same as it once did, that I've only just now been able to spend a night away from my children — has been enough to highlight just how free my life must have felt before I had children.

You were so brisk and nonchalant, as if you were selling me a handful of rice, and not autonomy over my own body, that I didn't feel ashamed.

These examples of intimate touching highlight the lack of autonomy over one's own body under dominant structures in contemporary society.

Semmel's work over the past five decades firmly situates the female body as a place for autonomy and a vehicle to challenge the objectification and fetishization of female sexuality and the invisibility of the female aging body.

In my experience — and from what I've seen there is a solid body or research to back this up — most people are driven more by respect, autonomy, power over their own circumstances, etc., than they are by money.

on the basis of sex by penalizing female students for exercising autonomy over their own bodies, effectively restricting their reproductive choices.

As suggested by past research on parenting of able - bodied adolescents, reductions in parental control over time, coupled with consistency in high levels of acceptance are associated with positive adolescent psychosocial adjustment and facilitate autonomy development (Barber & Harmon, 2002; Baumrind, 1991a; Steinberg et al., 1994).