Abstract
Experts testifying on contraceptives before the Senate last year occasionally sounded like army generals giving Congressmen a briefing on new weapons systems. For example, in a paper he co-authored and submitted for the hearing record, one witness used such terms as “the vaginal delivery system,” “target organ,” “subject compliance,” “delivery platform,” and “the target population.”
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Corea, G. (1980). The Depo-Provera Weapon. In: Holmes, H.B., Hoskins, B.B., Gross, M. (eds) Birth Control and Controlling Birth. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6005-9_15
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