Coerced Contraception?: Moral and Policy Challenges of Long-Acting Birth Control

Book Overview

Long-acting and reversible contraceptives, such as Norplant and Depo-Provera, have been praised as highly effective, moderately priced, and generally safe. Yet, as this book argues, the very qualities that make these contraceptives an important alternative for individual choice in family planning also make them a potential tool of coercive social policy. For example, policymakers have linked their use to welfare benefits, and judges, to probation agreements. In this book, authors from the fields of medicine, ethics, law, and the social sciences probe the unique and vexing ethical and policy issues raised by long-acting contraception. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878403647
• ISBN13: 9780878403646
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher