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Volume 336:1765 June 12, 1997 Number 24
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Coerced Contraception? Moral and policy challenges of long-acting birth control

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(Hastings Center Studies in Ethics.) Edited by Ellen H. Moskowitz and Bruce Jennings. 225 pp. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1996. $45. ISBN 0-87840-624-7.

The Hastings Center sponsored a project on the ethics of policies and practices regarding long-term contraception, which included conferences and presentations held between 1992 and 1994. As part of its series titled Hastings Center Studies in Ethics, the center has published a collection of papers originally delivered at these meetings, representing authors from diverse backgrounds and professional orientations.

Several overt forms of coercion may affect women's reproductive autonomy. The use of contraception as a condition of parole has received widespread publicity. Welfare systems may try to influence childbearing decisions by decreasing benefits to women who continue to have children or . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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