Title:	Population Policy and the U.S. Constitution
Authors:	Larry D. Barnett Kurt W. Back
Keywords:	Population - Law and legislation - United States
Issue Date:	1982
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	A few decades ago a monograph on the legal aspects of population control would have looked mainly at legal prohibitions. The salient legal problems were restriction of the use of birth control and dissemination of information about it. The assumption in such an approach would have been that effective population control is legally affected only by the clearly stated restrictions in the law. In other respects, the law could be assumed to be neutral. Judicial and legislative changes have eliminated practically all restrictions on the means of contraception. This development, however, has not freed population from its relation to the law; on the contrary, it has exposed the importance of law as a motivating force for and against population control. Although much applied work in population control is directed toward the distribution of contraceptives, concentration on the means of population control has shown itself to be of doubtful value. From many sides the primary importance of motivation has been recognized, along with the need to influence motivation and to analyze the conditions under which motivational change is possible. At this point the role of the law becomes apparent, along with the recognition that law has not been neutral in this issue-that, in fact, it cannot be neutral.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/56322
ISBN:	978-94-017-2718-1
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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