What’s so troubling about ‘voluntary’ family planning anyway? A feminist perspective

@article{Nandagiri2021WhatsST,  title={What’s so troubling about ‘voluntary’ family planning anyway? A feminist perspective},  author={Rishita Nandagiri},  journal={Population Studies},  year={2021},  volume={75},  pages={221 - 234},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:245125394}}
This intervention aims to help demographers see why some critics call for a reconsideration of voluntary family planning and encourage a decoupling of interventions from fertility reduction aims, instead centring human rights, autonomy, and reproductive empowerment.

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