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Article: Birth control, culture and the control of women. (column)
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- Special Delivery
- Article date:
- June 22, 1991
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Birth Control, Culture and the Control of Women
While I was working on the cover article, a woman in the office read the first page and left me the following note, "On the cover topic I can get quite heated! All these hormonal and chemical |breakthroughs' are still questionable, have side effects both immediate and who knows about long term? Worse, they're all designed for women! The same guinea pigs every time!! Why don't |they' investigate male hormones to speed up sperm maturation or knock out sperm production for a goddam |one to three years'?!! Sorry, but the scientific community is so used to thinking of women in terms of incubators, breeders, etc. that they ...