Chairs:

• Alma Beltrán y Puga alma.beltran@ibero.mx
• Catalina Martínez Coral CMartinez@reprorights.org
• Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra ijaramil@uniandes.edu.co
• René Urueña Hernández rf.uruena21@uniandes.edu.co

This workshop invites a critical conversation on the future of reproductive rights, with reproductive autonomy at its core. Long recognized as a central dimension of reproductive justice, autonomy is now being reshaped by the combined forces of digitalization, biomedical innovation, and shifting social norms.

The result is a landscape at once promising and fraught, where new possibilities for choice coexist with profound risks of inequality and control for women’s bodies as well as those of persons with diverse gender identities. Digital platforms, fertility-tracking apps, and telehealth services hold the potential to expand knowledge and self-determination, yet they also risk transforming intimate life into data for surveillance and commodification. Advances in genetic testing, polygenic embryo screening, and genome editing promise broader reproductive options, but may simultaneously revive ethical and juridical conversations on the rights to choose and to access scientific progress besides eugenic logics that could reinforce social hierarchies on the other.

The globalization of surrogacy disrupts conventional understandings of bodily integrity, kinship, and parental rights, raising urgent questions on how to regulate this practice to protect human rights of all parties. Constitutional and international human rights law have been the main frameworks to advance reproductive rights globally. However, they are not exempt from tensions with the regulation of new technologies and reproductive choices in different cultural contexts. Reimagining reproductive rights in this complex normative scenario seems more urgent than ever.

Against this backdrop, the workshop aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, and advocates to map the legal and technical frontiers of reproductive innovation. It seeks to imagine new pathways for safeguarding dignity, equality, and justice in a rapidly transforming field. Looking forward, we ask: What will reproductive rights mean in a world where reproductive decisions are mediated by data, algorithms, and genetics? How can we envision reproductive futures that expand autonomy and gender justice, while resisting the reproduction of historical patterns of exclusion and inequality? What is the role of constitutional and international human rights law in framing reproductive decisions? How are national and international courts responding to these pressing issues?