Abortion Before Birth Control

Author : Tiana Norgren,Christiana Norgren
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400843862

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Abortion before Birth Control by Tiana Norgren,Christiana Norgren Pdf

Why has postwar Japanese abortion policy been relatively progressive, while contraception policy has been relatively conservative? The Japanese government legalized abortion in 1948 but did not approve the pill until 1999. In this carefully researched study, Tiana Norgren argues that these contradictory policies flowed from very different historical circumstances and interest group configurations. Doctors and family planners used a small window of opportunity during the Occupation to legalize abortion, and afterwards, doctors and women battled religious groups to uphold the law. The pill, on the other hand, first appeared at an inauspicious moment in history. Until circumstances began to change in the mid-1980s, the pharmaceutical industry was the pill's lone champion: doctors, midwives, family planners, and women all opposed the pill as a potential threat to their livelihoods, abortion rights, and women's health. Clearly written and interwoven with often surprising facts about Japanese history and politics, Norgren's book fills vital gaps in the cross-national literature on the politics of reproduction, a subject that has received more attention in the European and American contexts. Abortion Before Birth Control will be a valuable resource for those interested in abortion and contraception policies, gender studies, modern Japanese history, political science, and public policy. This is a major contribution to the literature on reproductive rights and the role of civil society in a country usually discussed in the context of its industrial might.

Author : Janet Farrell Brodie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0801484332

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Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-century America by Janet Farrell Brodie Pdf

Drawing from a wide range of private and public sources, examines how American families gradually found access to taboo information and products for controlling the size of their families from the 1830s to the 1890s when a puritan backlash made most of it illegal. Emphasizes the importance of two shadowy networks, medical practitioners known as Thomsonians and water-curists, and iconoclastic freethinkers.

Author : John M. Riddle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Abortifacients
ISBN : 0674168763

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Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance by John M. Riddle Pdf

This text traces the history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the 17th century, and discusses the scientific merit of the ancient remedies and why this knowledge about fertility control was gradually lost over the course of the Middle Ages.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Contraceptive Research and Development
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309175654

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Contraceptive Research and Development by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Contraceptive Research and Development Pdf

The "contraceptive revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s introduced totally new contraceptive options and launched an era of research and product development. Yet by the late 1980s, conditions had changed and improvements in contraceptive products, while very important in relation to improved oral contraceptives, IUDs, implants, and injectables, had become primarily incremental. Is it time for a second contraceptive revolution and how might it happen? Contraceptive Research and Development explores the frontiers of science where the contraceptives of the future are likely to be found and lays out criteria for deciding where to make the next R&D investments. The book comprehensively examines today's contraceptive needs, identifies "niches" in those needs that seem most readily translatable into market terms, and scrutinizes issues that shape the market: method side effects and contraceptive failure, the challenge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and the implications of the "women's agenda." Contraceptive Research and Development analyzes the response of the pharmaceutical industry to current dynamics in regulation, liability, public opinion, and the economics of the health sector and offers an integrated set of recommendations for public- and private-sector action to meet a whole new generation of demand.

Author : Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Publisher : White Thread Press
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781933764009

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Birth Control & Abortion in Islam by Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari Pdf

Birth control, or family planning through contraception, has become a common practice in society. Many new methods of permanent and temporary contraception have become widespread. Consequently, Muslims have also increasingly begun adopting the various means of limiting or spacing out procreation. This no doubt has a deep influence on the very core of our society and thus raises many ethical and religious questions, particularly surrounding abortion. Birth Control & Abortion in Islam systematically and concisely presents the relevant rules and regulations of Islamic law on these issues. The discussions are based entirely on the Holy Qur’an, Sunna, and the formal legal rulings propounded by the jurists of the four major Sunni schools of Islamic law. After learning of the significance of the topic through the author’s simple writing style, the reader is guided through the Islamic teachings on the various forms of birth control and abortion with unequivocal conclusiveness. Short and to the point, it contains all the essentials one needs to know about the subject.

Author : Randy C. Alcorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 0970001606

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Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? by Randy C. Alcorn Pdf

Stress. It's part of our everyday lives, sometimes as the spark that keeps us moving forward and sometimes as the avalanche that threatens to bury us. Chances are, since this book's title has caught your eye, you are looking for some relief from stress, or at least hope that relief is possible. In this revised and updated edition of Help for Women Under Stress originally published in 1987, Randy and Nanci offer you both the hope and the help you are looking for. They not only help you understand what stress is and how it operates, but give plenty of useful tips and strategies for bringing peace to the chaos of your daily life. Your energy is perishable, but can be daily replenished. Don't waste your life in unnecessary and unwise responses to stress. Let this book help you live in a way that honors God and your loved ones, while understanding and respecting your limits. And let it remind you that one day God will wipe away all the downsides of stress in an eternal world of rest, refreshment, thriving relationships and unending adventure.

Author : Chris Kahlenborn
Publisher : One More Soul
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 0966977734

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Breast Cancer by Chris Kahlenborn Pdf

Author : John M. Riddle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674266674

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Eve’s Herbs by John M. Riddle Pdf

In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve’s Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times? Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal climate of the early modern period tended to cast suspicion on women who employed “secret knowledge” to terminate or prevent pregnancy. Knowledge of the menstrual-regulating qualities of rue, pennyroyal, and other herbs was widespread through succeeding centuries among herbalists, apothecaries, doctors, and laywomen themselves, even as theologians and legal scholars began advancing the idea that the fetus was fully human from the moment of conception. Drawing on previously unavailable material, Riddle reaches a startling conclusion: while it did not persist in a form that was available to most women, ancient knowledge about herbs was not lost in modern times but survived in coded form. Persecuted as “witchcraft” in centuries past and prosecuted as a crime in our own time, the control of fertility by “Eve’s herbs” has been practiced by Western women since ancient times.

Author : Johanna Schoen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458731579

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Choice and Coercion by Johanna Schoen Pdf

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241548711

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Clinical Practice Handbook for Safe Abortion by World Health Organization Pdf

The Clinical practice handbook for safe abortion care is intended to facilitate the practical application of the clinical recommendations from the second edition of Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems (World Health Organization [WHO] 2012). While legal, regulatory, policy and service-delivery contexts may vary from country to country, the recommendations and best practices described in both of these documents aim to enable evidence-based decision-making with respect to safe abortion care.

Author : Christopher Tietze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Abortion
ISBN : UCAL:B4527340

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Birth Control and Abortion by Christopher Tietze Pdf

Author : Marianne Mollmann
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Abortion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Decisions Denied by Marianne Mollmann Pdf

Recommendations -- Background -- Pervasive barriers in access to contraceptives -- Voluntary tubal ligation : a case study in denial of access to contraceptives -- Obstacles to the right to decide in matters concerning abortion -- International human rights law and abortion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments.

Author : Donald T. Critchlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198021537

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Intended Consequences by Donald T. Critchlow Pdf

After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government's involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, partisan controversies in American political history. The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally altered the debate over the federal family planning movement, shifting its focus from population control directed by established interests in the philanthropic community to highly polarized pro-abortion and anti-abortion groups mobilized at the grass-roots level. And when the Supreme Court granted women the Constitutional right to legal abortion in 1973, what began as a bi-partisan, quiet revolution during the administrations of Kennedy and Johnson exploded into a contentious argument over sexuality, welfare, the role of women, and the breakdown of traditional family values. Intended Consequences encompasses over four decades of political history, examining everything from the aftermath of the Republican "moral revolution" during the Reagan and Bush years to the current culture wars concerning unwed motherhood, homosexuality, and the further protection of women's abortion rights. Critchlow's carefully balanced appraisal of federal birth control and abortion policy reveals that despite the controversy, the family planning movement has indeed accomplished much in the way of its intended goal--the reduction of population growth in many parts of the world. Written with authority, fresh insight, and impeccable research, Intended Consequences skillfully unfolds the history of how the federal government found its way into the private bedrooms of the American family.

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : New York : Grossman
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036619612

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Woman's Body, Woman's Right by Linda Gordon Pdf

By 1850, most contraceptive methods and abortion were illegal in America. But in the late 19th century, American women began demanding the right to prevent or terminate pregnancy. Gordon traces the story of this controversy, and includes new material on recent movements to outlaw abortion.

Author : Violetta Hionidou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030414900

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Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967 by Violetta Hionidou Pdf

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available. It situates the history of abortion and contraception within the historiography of the fertility decline and the question of whether the decline was due to adjustment to changing social conditions or innovation of contraceptive methods. The study reveals that all methods had been in use for other purposes before they were employed as contraceptives. For example, Greek women were employing emmenagogues well before fertility was controlled; they did so in order to ‘put themselves right’ and to enhance their fertility. When they needed to control their fertility, they employed abortifacients, some of which were also emmenagogues, while others had been used as expellants in earlier times. Curettage was also employed since the late nineteenth century as a cure for sterility; once couples desired to control their fertility curettage was employed to procure abortion. Thus couples did not need to innovate but rather had to repurpose old methods and materials to new birth control methods. Furthermore, the role of physicians was found to have been central in advising and encouraging the use of birth control for ‘health’ reasons, thus facilitating and speeding fertility decline in Greece. All this occurred against the backdrop of a state and a church that were at times neutral and at other times disapproving of fertility control.