Reproductive Rights and the State

Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, Morning-after Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the U.S. Market

in English, 184 pages,
ABC-CLIO, January 2013
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Simultaneously examining four significant, never-before-combined case studies, this unique feminist analysis offers troubling revelations about the private-public interaction in U.S. policy affecting birth control drugs.

The facts in the birth control battle are sobering, among them that women’s access to contraception and medical abortion in the United States has never been offered without restriction. More disturbing, as studies of four key, birth-control-related drugs demonstrate, is the realization that politics and profit have continually trumped medical considerations in determining the availability and use of birth control drugs.