Title: From Norplant to the contraceptive vaccine.

POPLINE Document Number: 290349

Author(s):

Roberts D

Source citation:

In: Killing the Black body: race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty, [by] Dorothy Roberts. New York, New York, Pantheon Books, 1997. :[25] p..

Abstract:

They told us this and they told us that about the Norplant and I'm going through all these changes and I'm trying to have it removed." Yvonne Thomas, a thirty-year-old Baltimore mother, was describing her experience with Norplant, a new, long-acting contraceptive implanted in her arm at a family-planning clinic. When she began suffering from side effects, Thomas returned to have the device removed. But the clinic staff balked at her request. "Then they tell me that it's not putting me in bed, as if they know how I feel on the inside of my body...I feel like because I'm a social service mother that's what's keeping me from getting this Norplant out of me. Because I've known other people that has the Norplant that spent money to have it put in and spent money to have it put out with no problems....That's how they make me feel, like 'you got this Norplant you keep it'." (excerpt)

Keywords:

Global
Critique
Women
Adolescent Pregnancy
Contraceptive Implants
Contraception Research
Testing
USFDA
Product Approval
Contraceptive Vaccines
Contraceptive Removal
Population Control
Demographic Factors
Population
Reproductive Behavior
Fertility
Population Dynamics
Contraceptive Methods
Contraception
Family Planning
Measurement
Research Methodology
USPHS
Government Agencies
Organizations
Legislation
Contraception, Immunological
Treatment
Population Policy
Social Policy
Policy