The challenges of global reproductive health are complex and multifaceted, and the issue of population control touches upon the sensitive areas of contraception, abortion, reproductive politics, personal autonomy, and more.

By the 1970s, Canadians enjoyed greater sexual freedoms, legal access to birth control, and the decriminalization of homosexuality … against the shadow of eugenics.

Professors Erika Dyck (U Sask) and Maureen Lux (Brock U) explore who had access to reproductive choices and who remained under the state's watchful eye in a new era of family planning.

URL:

https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/historymedicine/

Contact:

Shelley McKellar
smckell@uwo.ca

Department:

Faculty of Social Science, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry