The standard
Defend Black people from coerced sterilization, reproductive neglect, maternal death, child removal, and policies that obstruct healthy family formation.
Why it matters
Black survival has repeatedly been governed through reproduction: forced breeding under slavery, sterilization abuse, medical experimentation, welfare regulation, family separation, environmental harm, and unequal maternal care. A pro-Black doctrine must protect the right to have children, not have children, and raise children safely within materially supported communities. Reproductive continuity is not a command that every Black person reproduce. It is the collective duty to prevent external institutions from determining whether Black families may exist and flourish.
Practical example
A Black health coalition builds doula networks, fertility and maternal care, legal defense against coercive sterilization, father support, infant health programs, and policy campaigns against environmental reproductive harm.
Failure test
A people cannot claim self-determination while surrendering control over the conditions of its own reproduction.