Abortion before Birth Control
Subtitle: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780691070056
Subjects: Abortion; Birth control, contraception, family planning; Central government policies; Population & demography; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; History; Birth control; Sociology; History: World; Japan; Abortion & Birth Control; Asia - Japan; Social History; Asian and Asian American Studies; Gender Studies; History / Japan; Political Science and International Relations; Family size; Government policy
First sentence: ON MARCH 2, 1998, at the final stage of a review process that had stretched into its eighth year, the Central Pharmaceutical Advisory Council of the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) again decided to delay approval of the low-dose contraceptive pill and ordered an investigation into the ecological effects of hormonal contraceptives.