Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2005 - Social Science - 331 pages
In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted by newspaper stories based on the research of J
 

Contents

A Great Thing for Poor Folks
1
Teaching Birth Control on Tobacco Road and in Mill Village Alley The History of Public Birth Control Services
21
Nothing Is Removed Except the Possibility of Parenthood Women and the Politics of Sterilization
75
I Knew That It Was a Serious Crime Negotiating Abortion before Roe v Wade
139
Taking Foam Powder and Jellies to the Natives Family Planning Goes Abroad
197
From the Footnotes to the Headlines Sterilization Apologies and Their Lessons
241
Notes
251
Bibliography
303
Index
319
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Johanna Schoen is professor of history at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

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