Margaret Pabst Battin

Sex and the Planet (eBook, ePUB)

What Opt-In Reproduction Could Do for the Globe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What if human reproduction was always elective? A prominent bioethicist speculates about the possibilities-and the likely consequences. What would the world be like if all pregnancy was intended, not unintended as it is nearly half the time now? Considerably better, Margaret Pabst Battin suggests in Sex and the Planet, a provocative thought experiment with far-reaching real-world implications. Many of the world's most vexing and seemingly intractable issues begin with sex-when sperm meets egg, as Battin puts it-abortion, adolescent pregnancy, high-risk pregnancy, sexual violence, population growth and decline. Rethinking reproductive rights and exposing our many mistaken assumptions about sex, Sex and the Planet offers an optimistic picture of how we might solve these problems-by drastically curtailing unintended pregnancies using currently available methods. How we see this picture-as recommendation, prediction, utopian fantasy, totalitarian plot, hypothetical conjecture, or realistic solution-depends to a great degree on which of thirteen problematic assumptions we maintain, assumptions Battin works to identify and challenge. Taking on sensitive topics like abortion and rape and religious issues around contraception, she shows how a fully informed, nonideological approach could defuse much of the friction such issues tend to generate. Also, in her attention to male contraception and the asymmetry of female and male reproductive control, she pulls in the 50 percent of the human race-those with Y chromosomes-largely left out of discussions of reproductive health. Sex and the Planet, finally, takes a global view, inviting us to consider a possible-even plausible-reproductive future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262378529
• Artikelnr.: 68764625

Autorenporträt

Margaret Pabst Battin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities, at the University of Utah. She has written, cowritten, edited, or coedited some twenty books, including The Least Worst Death and other volumes on end-of-life issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:           
Part I: The Opt-In Conjecture: Reversing the Default Outcome of Sex
1. What if Human Reproduction Were “Opt-In,” “Always
Elective”?                           
2. The Opt-in Conjecture and the Real World                 
3. Why the Pill Isn’t Quite Good Enough: Modern Methods of Fertility
Management           
Part II: Resolving Five Large-Scale Reproductive Problems of the Globe
4. How to Solve the Wars Over Abortion                 
5. Adolescent Pregnancy Around the Globe: Child Brides and Teens Taking
Chances
6. Coerced Sex, Coerced Reproduction     
7. High-Risk Pregnancy: Maternal Illness, Drugs, and Bad Stuff in the
Environment   
8. Global Population Growth and Decline     
Part III.  Men, Religion, and Money
9.  Men. The Asymmetry of Female vs. Male Fertility Control   
10. “Double Coverage”:  Why Not Both, Females and Males?     
11. Religious Opposition and the Embrace of Procreation     
12. Money, Money: The Low Low Cost of Opt-In Reproduction     
Part IV. What We Think and Where We Go Wrong
13. Problematic Assumptions about Sex and its Reproductive Consequences   
     
14. How Not to Read this Book and Don’t See the Movie