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July 20, 2017

Contraceptive coercion is not ok: an open letter to Judge Sam Benningfield

The letter below was sent to Judge Sam Benningfield, in response to this news story. Access to contraception is critical to ensure reproductive health, and inmates who desire it should be provided with access to it. However, any form of reproductive coercion is unacceptable, and enticing inmates to use contraception in exchange for reduced jail time is coercive.
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A reproductive health epidemiologist who hopes to transmute her rage at social injustice and scientific denialism into something useful.

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