This article offers a critique of the feminist politics that have influenced international law developments in the area of reproductive rights by looking specifically at the Programme of Action drafted at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo. The author finds that while significant progress was made in the discourse on, and conceptualization of, the role and equality of women in population and reproductive health policies, the Cairo agreement continues to reinforce conceptions of the fertilization of Southern women as dangerous or threatening.