Just Get on the Pill by Krystale E. Littlejohn

Author:Krystale E. Littlejohn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520307445
Publisher: University of California Press

Pregnancy Solutions and Gender-Foreclosed Resolutions

In this section, I focus not on whether pregnancy-resolution pathways were a choice or not for women but instead on elucidating the contours of their social contexts.14 Thus, the analysis rests on the key reproductive justice premise that women’s decisions can never be divorced from the public and political contexts in which they make them.15 Nor can they be divorced from their relationship contexts and broader experiences with fertility.16 As the women’s stories demonstrated, they pursued particular pathways amid a gendered social politics that enabled and constrained their behaviors. While the majority of the chapter, then, has focused on the intersection of gender, contraception, and inequity preconception, this section shows how inequity in autonomy could play out after conception occurred.

Women had experiences with both casual and more serious partners assigning to them the responsibility for managing a potential conception. They faced these assumptions in varying contraceptive contexts—from those in which the concern revolved around a pregnancy that resulted from contraceptive failure to ones in which the couple did not contracept at all. Take, for example, Carolyn’s (21 years old, white) description of an experience she had with a casual partner whom she met at a party on the last night of a trip abroad:

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