IDSB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reproductive Rights
21 Apr 2012
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Professor told story about clinic that does hysterectomies under guise of other problems. Health services include hiv counseling, birth clinics, and postnatal care. In specific countries, there is control of fertility. The majority of the money goes towards fertility regulation. The ability of a woman to have children is part of the reproductive framework. Certain broader ideas trump a woman or family"s ability to choose how many children she wants. In the west, there is a correlation between population and scarcity of resources. The bodies of racialized women began in na and shifted to the curving of population rights in countries outside the western world. Malthus (principle of population): population increases at a geometric rate, whereas food grows at an arithmetic rate. This would result in problems, but we have natural causes that check excessive pop growth. Moral restraint is the key to population growth check,
