TY - JOUR
AU - Mills, Claudia
AB -  Many people have opinions about when and how and whether and why other people should be having babies. This proclivity to make judgments about other people’s reproductive behavior may strike us as a pure and simple case of meddling, best met by the rejoinder to MYOB. But it may also reflect a genuine and legitimate concern for the prospective parents, for their offspring, and for society more generally, which shares responsibility for all its members. And so we see parental lectures, commands and counseling from clergy, sex education in schools, media campaigns pushing abstinence or “responsible” sex. We also see a spectrum of governmental efforts to influence reproductive behavior, ranging from the compulsory sterilization not uncommon in our nation’s past, to government-sponsored publicity drives led from the “bully pulpit,” to various incentives and disincentives linked to reproductive behavior in the tax code, the criminal code, or the welfare system, as well as efforts by one government to change the reproductive policies of another government or the reproductive behavior of its own citizens. A number of programs focus on the use of long-acting contraceptives, such as Norplant, which, once implanted, provides protection against pregnancy for up to five years. 
TI - The Ethics of Reproductive Control
JF - Philosophical Forum
DO - 10.1111/0031-806X.t01-1-00005
DA - 1999-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-ethics-of-reproductive-control-tEaA07PLqv
SP - 43
VL - 30
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -