My Body, My Choice. Or Is It? | Emily Ruggeri Seshadri | TEDxSOAS

Описание: With recent discussions surrounding sexual harassment and domestic violence, we are ignoring a hidden form of abuse: reproductive coercion. Reproductive coercion consists of threats or acts of violence against a partner's reproductive health or decision-making and is a collection of behaviours intended to pressure or coerce a partner into initiating, keeping, or terminating a pregnancy. Most people don't even know this a form of abuse or that it's happening to them. This topic will expand into talking further about how this is often encouraged by a lack of parental responsibility and looking at ways this issue could be approached to help resolve it. Alongside doing a degree in Biomedical sciences, Emily Ruggeri Seshadri is a human rights and gender equality activist. Her interest in both medicine and gender equality has come to be useful when in her research of women's reproductive health and rights. She is an assistant in a gynaecology clinic weekly, has set up the HeforShe Society, as part of UN Women, at Birkbeck, University of London, and is collaborating with GoodLad Initative on various projects. She has directed and produced a short film on gender equality which has now been selected as a finalist in ‘Girls Impact the World’ Film Festival in the USA and is an active member of the Women's Equality Party. Her research and campaigning mainly focuses on reproductive coercion, women's reproductive health and parental responsibility and rights. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx