SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Petri Dish, Reproductive Health, Louise Brown
20 Jan 2017
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Sosc 1801 lecture fourteen - genetics and reproduction. Requires understanding of nations, religion, politics, kinship and the dynamics of nature and culture: incorporates government policies, national identity and other socially constructed elements. Illegal in some nations, legal in others: plays a role on the political agenda, planned parenthood provides all types of reproductive health services including access to abortions. Pro-choice governmental program: in canada abortions are legal. Women have a choice to terminate pregnancy. Birth control and population growth: determines how nations are built with particular people, countries in the global south are targeted with birth control and population control. Policy was lifted two years ago in order to grow the working class: national policy on population growth can have a huge impact. Forced sterilization: many women were forced to be sterilized, people did not want slow people to reproduce.
