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