Title: Vaccination against pregnancy
First published: March 1995
Description: The new immunological contraceptives now under development are being hailed as a breakthrough in medical science and a solution to population growth in the South. They work by provoking an auto-immune response which tricks the body into attacking its own reproductive hormones as though they were some kind of infection. But preventing pregnancy is not like fighting a disease. Will these new contraceptives be reliable? Are they safe? Are the results reversible? Does their design encourage coercion and abuse? A public debate is urgently needed, this book argues, before immunological contraceptives become a 'fact of life' for women.
Subjects: Antifertility vaccines, Birth control, Contraception, Immunological, Immunological Contraception, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Birth control, Birth control, moral and ethical aspects, Contraception, Ethics, Immunologic Contraception, Methods
LC classification: RG136.85 .R53 1996