My body, their decision: reproductive injustice, racialized pronatalism and Romani feminist resistance in Hungary

Romani women in Hungary face reproductive injustice combined with intersecting forms of racism, sexism, classism, and socioeconomic inequalities, which violate their bodily autonomy and fundamental human rights. This paper uses the Reproductive Justice framework and argues that these injustices and inequalities go beyond discriminatory healthcare practices and are a part of a broader system of racialized governance and pronatalist state policies that create racialized, class-based hierarchies and determine whose reproduction is valued and supported. The paper also discusses exclusionary feminist agendas that maintain these inequalities when overlooking the experiences and needs of Romani women. The paper cites academic literature, human rights reports and testimonies, and lists Romani feminist initiatives, such as the Circle of MARA, the Community Romani Doula Service, the Feminist Collective of Romani Gender Experts, and the Feminist Romnja Library, as examples of community-based resistance that center Romani women's lived experience, knowledge production, and agency.