Birth control

Background In developing countries, there is a pressing need of over 200 million women and girls who want to avoid, space, or delay becoming pregnant and yet have no access to or knowledge of effective contraception methods. Among the available family planning methods, intrauter…

Fears of a demographic crisis in China have led the Chinese government to relax its one-child policy to a two-child policy. Policies intended to reduce the cost of childbearing have not successfully raised the birth rate, and the government instead encourages women to take on th…

Forty years after Indonesia's Family Planning Program was created, the country continues to struggle to meet the reproductive health needs of some of its hardest-to-reach populations. Over the last decade, contraceptive prevalence has stagnated and unmet need for contraceptives …

Looking at the trajectory of Turkish reproductive politics since the 1960s in three distinct periods, this study examines the mismatch between liberal legal reforms, and the lack of change in the gendered reproductive and sexual discourses within a context. By using interpretive…