Abstract
In a society like Pakistan, women are valued solely as
wives in their child bearing capacity. Unfortunately,
responsibility of reproduction coupled with gender inequality
and discrimination harms women’s health directly or indirectly
throughout their life and particularly during their child-bearing
span. Socio-cultural constraints along with poverty and social
injustice keep women ignorant of their reproductive rights and so
prevent them from enjoying good health and attain an identity of
their own unbound by their sexual and mothering roles. Unequal
relationship between husbands and wives hamper women to have
control on their own bodies, participate in decision making
regarding fertility regulation and protect themselves against
unwanted pregnancies.
