Fragmentation and reproductive freedom: federally subsidized family planning services, 1960-80.

Ethics in family planning/reproductive health services

Perceptions of and preferences for federally-funded family planning clinics

BACKGROUND The Title X family planning program provides affordable access to a range of sexual and reproductive health services, with a priority for low-income people. The disproportionate burden of unintended pregnancy, breast and cervical cancer, and sexually transmitted diseases among minority groups, teens, and young adults in the US underscore the need for affordable access to such service...

The Heinz fellowships 1960-80.

This paper celebrates a 25th birthday, a record of learning and teaching across the Commonwealth. It began in 1959, when Philip Evans (secretary, British Paediatric Association 1954-59) and Reginald Lightwood (Head of University Department of Paediatrics, St Mary's Medical School, London), convinced that paediatric teaching exchanges would improve child health within the Commonwealth, sought th...

Reproductive freedom and risk.

It is widely recognized that one person's freedom may be limited to prevent harm to another (non-consenting) person. It is curious, therefore, that where a right to reproductive freedom is recognized, there is considerable reticence to limit or override it in cases where reproduction harms those people who are brought into existence. I argue that this is inappropriate. If there should be no rig...

Reproductive health services for refugees by refugees in Guinea I: family planning

BACKGROUND Comprehensive studies of family planning (FP) in refugee camps are relatively uncommon. This paper examines gender and age differences in family planning knowledge, attitudes, and practices among Sierra Leonean and Liberian refugees living in Guinea. METHODS In 1999, a cross-sectional survey was conducted of 889 reproductive-age men and women refugees from 48 camps served by the re...