Reproductive rights are an essential part of human rights and gender equality. They refer to the rights of individuals to make free, informed, and voluntary decisions about their reproductive lives without discrimination, coercion, violence, or interference. These rights include the freedom to decide whether and when to have children, the number and spacing of children, access to reproductive healthcare, contraception, information, education, and the right to make decisions about pregnancy and childbirth. From a gender-based violence perspective, reproductive rights are particularly important because women and girls often experience violence and control through restrictions on their reproductive choices. Reproductive coercion is a form of gender-based violence in which a partner or family member interferes with a person's reproductive decisions. It may include forced pregnancy, preventing the use of contraception, tampering with contraceptives, pressuring someone to become pregnant, or forcing a person to terminate or continue a pregnancy. Such practices violate bodily autonomy and can have serious physical and psychological consequences. The right to bodily autonomy is a