Depo Shot, Norplant, and Birth Control Info
The eugenics objection to the Norplant for Consenting Teens program argues that the program has some hidden eugenic agenda. For example, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke proposed a Norplant incentive bill that referred to young black women by employing code words, such as ‘welfare recipients in need of birth control education’. Because black [...]
For the Norplant for Consenting Teens policy to succeed, it needs to develop the sexual education programs in the United States. There are two faults with this. First, the need for sexual education programs hides many of the costs of the Norplant birth control for Consenting Teens policy by shifting them to the education programs. [...]
A more sophisticated objection to the policy for subsidizing Norplant, or any other single form of contraception, argues that such a policy interferes with a woman’s right to make her own contraceptive choices. Instead of offering true choice among alternative methods, governmental contraceptive incentive policies effectively force low income women into making a single contraceptive [...]