Fetal citizens or “anchor babies”? Explaining reproductive injustice against immigrants and what feminists should do about it

In the United States, undocumented immigrant women are often subjected to reproductive injustices, including the denial of abortions. dangerous shackling, non-consensual sterilization, and a lack of medical care. Brittany Leach looks at the far-Right discourses which simultaneously see fetuses as citizens while seeking to punish pregnant undocumented women immigrants. She writes on how the contradictions of these pro-life and anti-immigrant discourses are clouded by the far Right and argues that feminists should fight to end the imprisonment of pregnant immigrants – and all others – for civil immigration offenses.