Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare.Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization sterilization Any surgical procedure intended to end fertility permanently (see contraception). Such operations remove or interrupt the anatomical pathways through which the cells involved in fertilization travel (see reproductive system). , and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare Johanna Schoen (University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina. External link
Schoen takes the history of North Carolina's eugenic eu·gen·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to eugenics. 2. Relating or adapted to the production of good or improved offspring. sterilization program between 1929 and 1975 and puts it into a national and global context, showing that at home and abroad, contraceptive contraceptive /con·tra·cep·tive/ (-sep´tiv) 1. diminishing the likelihood of or preventing conception. 2. an agent that so acts. technology has been a double-edged sword, permitting women unprecedented ability to control their own fertility white at the same time allowing governments to coerce and control whole populations. |
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