Choice and Coercion
Subtitle: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Gender and American Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 16, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780807829196
Subjects: Birth control, contraception, family planning; Population & demography; Women's Studies - General; Involuntary sterilization; Diet / Health / Fitness; Social Science; Sociology; USA; North Carolina; Abortion & Birth Control; Public Policy - Social Policy; eugenics; birth control; sterilization; abortion; poor women; reproductive policies; North Carolina public health; welfare programs; Birth control; Abortion; Government policy; History
First sentence: In 1948, Estelle, a twelve-year-old African American girl from Pittsburgh, had her first encounter with abortion.