What is emerging, in fact, is a new kind of reproductive rights movement, one fighting not only for the reproductive rights of women, but for the reproductive rights of the planet as a whole—for the decapitated mountains, the drowned valleys, the clear-cut forests, the fracked water tables, the strip-mined hillsides, the poisoned rivers, the “cancer villages.” All of life has the right to renew, regenerate, and heal itself. Based on this principle, countries like Bolivia and Ecuador—with large Indigenous populations—have enshrined the “rights of Mother Earth” into law, creating powerful new
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