Reproductive coercion is a behavior that interferes with the autonomous decision-making of
a woman, with regard to reproductive health. It may take the form of birth control sabotage …

Voluntary family planning is a key mainstay of demographic work and population policies.
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) signalled a …

Abstract Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, there
has been increased attention to high‐quality and rights‐based family planning, but these …

Despite narratives about empowering women through contraception, global family planning
programs are evaluated primarily by their ability to increase contraceptive uptake and …

For many years, most of us in the Society of Family Planning and the wider reproductive
health community have relied on the number of unintended pregnancies as a justification for …

We examine whether changes in US pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates between 2009 and
2015 reflect underlying change in the incidence of pregnancies classified by retrospectively …

In this study, we measure gender inequality both at individual level by women׳ s household
decision-making and at contextual level by permissive gender norms associated with …

Objective To explore patient experiences of contraceptive coercion by healthcare providers
at time of abortion. Study Design We conducted a qualitative study of English-speaking …

There is growing consensus in the family planning community around the need for novel
measures of autonomy. Existing literature highlights the tension between efforts to pursue …

The COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the world, altering nearly every facet of
contemporary life and causing behavioral and socioeconomic changes that seemed …