ArticleWhere a person lives in the United States determines her rights as well as her geography. And our rights — be they sexual or reproductive — are inherently linked, as is demonstrated by a new interactive website,
Mapping Our Rights. The project scores and ranks all 50 states and Washington, D.C. on key sexual and reproductive rights legislation. The map uses a penalty-points system to determine whether a state's laws and policies support or undermine sexual and reproductive rights.
The policies analyzed in the map have enormous impacts on individual lives. If you are an African American woman, for example, you are four times more likely to die in childbirth and pregnancy than if you are white.
