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44 Am. U. L. Rev. 1179 (1994-1995)
Family Planning Services

handle is hein.journals/aulr44 and id is 1198 raw text is: THE IMPACT OF REPRODUCTIVE SUBORDINATION ON WOMEN'S HEALTH FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES MAHMOUD F. FATHALA* ABSTRACr Empowering women with the ability to regulate and control their fertility is a basic requirement for women's health, well-being, and quality of life. It is also a requirement for enjoyment of other social rights. In many societies, the predominant objection to the use of contraception was really an objection to the control of contracep- tion by women, rather than against contraception itself. Male- dominated societies resented giving control of the process of reproduction to women. Patriarchal societies reasoned that if women had control over their reproduction, they would also have the unthinkable---control over their own sexuality. In terms of maternal health, there is little difference between coerced contraception, sterilization, or abortion, because society does not want the child, and coerced motherhood, because society wants the child. Both interventions deny women the dignity of making a choice in their reproductive life. The negative impact on women's health due to violation of their reproductive rights is also equally pronounced whether it is a result of direct action on the * M.D. (Cairo), Ph.D. (Edinburgh), Honorary Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Fellow, ad eund. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Dr. Honoris Causa (Uppsala, Sweden) is Senior Advisor, Biomedical and Reproductive Health Research, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Assiut University, Egypt. He is president of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, former chairman of the International Medical Advisory Panel of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and former director of the WHO Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction. 1179

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