In Our Control (64 page)

  
54.
Gregory S. Kopf, “Approaches to the Identification of New Nonhormonal Targets for Male Contraception,”
Contraception
78, no. 4 (October 2008): S18-S22.

  
55.
Quoted in Bridget M. Kuehn, “Male Contraceptives on the Horizon,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
296, no. 21 (December
6
, 2006): 2540.

Chapter Eleven: Going Green

    
1.
Mike Carney, “Pigeons to Get Birth Control Pills,”
USA Today
, June 20, 2008.

    
2.
OvoControl P and similar drugs aren’t contraceptives, which prevent fertilization; they are contragestationals, meaning they prevent a fertilized embryo from developing properly.

    
3.
Quoted in Sewell Chan, “Birth Control for Staten Island’s Pigeons?”
New York Times
, October 30, 2007.

    
4.
David A. Fahrenthold, “Abnormal Fish Found Closer to Washington; Waste Suspected in Egg-Bearing Males,”
Washington Post
, December 19, 2004, C01.

    
5.
Simon Benson, “Gender-Benders Flush Out a Pollution Agenda,”
Daily Telegraph
(Surry Hills, Australia), April 2, 2002, 17.

    
6.
Jon Fogg, “Potomac’s Intersex Fish a Puzzle for Scientists,”
Washington Times
, July 22, 2005, B01.

    
7.
Dawn Fallik, “Drinking Water Holds Surprises,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, November 28, 2004, B01.

    
8.
Dene Moore, “Toxic Drug Traces Detected in River,”
Toronto Star
, July 5, 2006, A06.

    
9.
Quoted in David A. Fahrenthold, “ ‘Human Activity’ Blamed for Fish Ills,”
Washington Post
, February 8, 2008, B03.

  
10.
Andrew C. Revkin, “Stream Tests Show Traces of Array of Contaminants,”
New York Times
, March 13, 2002, A18.

  
11.
Michael Pollan, “Power Steer,”
New York Times Magazine
, March 31, 2002, 644.

  
12.
Ibid.

  
13.
David A. Fahrenthold, “Inquiry Turns to Humans on Pollutant, Hormone Tie; Evidence Such as Eggs in Male Fish Spurs Push,”
Washington Post
, December 4, 2006, B01.

  
14.
Brian Rademaekers, “Drinking Water Gets a Drug Test,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, February 27, 2006, A01.

  
15.
Quoted in Fallik, “Drinking Water Holds Surprises,” B01.

  
16.
Tom Spears, “Flushed Hormones Change Sex of fish: Synthetic Estrogen in Water from Sewage Causes Male Fish to Produce Eggs: Study,”
Ottawa Citizen
, January 5, 2002, A1.

  
17.
Seth Borenstein, “Pollution from the Pill Alters Fish; A Study Found that Water Tainted with the Female Hormone Estrogen ‘Feminized’ Male Fish,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, June 29, 2003, A12.

  
18.
Spears, “Flushed Hormones,” A1.

  
19.
Roger Highfield, “ ‘Contraceptive Pill Pollution ’Causes Decline in Fish Numbers,’ ”
Daily Telegraph
(London), May 22, 2007, 13.

  
20.
Revkin, “Stream Tests,” A18

  
21.
Ibid.

  
22.
Ibid.

  
23.
“University of Colorado Opens Lab Focused on Detecting, Treating Pharmaceuticals in Water; Agilent Technologies Provides Core Instrumentation,” Agilent Technologies, press release, April 7, 2008,
http://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2008/07apr-ca08025.html
.

  
24.
Barbara Seaman,
The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth
(New York: Hyperion, 2003), 211.

  
25.
Quoted in ibid., 219.

  
26.
Andrew C. Revkin, “F.D.A. Considers New Tests for Environmental Effects,”
New York Times
, March 14, 2002, A20.

  
27.
Ibid.

  
28.
Cornelia Dean, “Drugs Are in the Water. Does It Matter?”
New York Times
, April 3, 2007, F1.

  
29.
Ibid.

  
30.
Rademaekers, “Drinking Water Gets a Drug Test,” A01.

  
31.
Quoted in “Pill Causes Pollution, Says Report,”
Advertiser
, January 25, 2009, 23.

  
32.
Fahrenthold, “Inquiry Turns to Humans,” B01.

  
33.
Seaman,
Greatest Experiment
, 214.

  
34.
Devra Davis, interview by Terry Gross, “Chemicals, Cancer and You,”
Fresh Air
, National Public Radio, October 4, 2007.

  
35.
Ibid.

  
36.
Fallik, “Drinking Water Holds Surprises,” B01.

  
37.
Dean, “Drugs Are in the Water,” F1.

  
38.
“Oestrogens Found in Bottled Mineral Water,”
ENDS Report
, no. 411, April 1, 2009, 26.

  
39.
Janet Raloff, “Contraceptive-Patch Worry: Disposal Concern Focuses on Wildlife,”
Science News
162, no. 16 (October 19, 2002): 245–46.

  
40.
Quoted in ibid.

  
41.
Janet Raloff, “Contraceptive Ring Could Pose Risks After Its Disposal,”
Science News
163, no. 4 (January 25, 2003): 62.

  
42.
See “Environmentally-Friendly Condom Disposal,” Go Ask Alice! December 20, 2002,
www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/2311.html
.

  
43.
David A. Fahrenthold, “When It Comes to Pollution, Less (Kids) May Be More,”
Washington Post
, September 15, 2009.

  
44.
Ibid.

  
45.
Ibid.

Chapter Twelve: Around the World in Twenty-eight Days

    
1.
Quoted in Michelle Goldberg,
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World
(New York: Penguin Press, 2009), 81.

    
2.
Duff Gillespie, “Contraceptive Use and the Poor: A Matter of Choice?”
PLoS Medicine
4, no. 2 (February 2007): e49.

    
3.
Quoted in Goldberg,
Means of Reproduction
, 81.

    
4.
Arthur Krock, “The Most Dangerous Bomb of All,”
New York Times
, October 2, 1959, 28.

    
5.
Goldberg,
Means of Reproduction
, 51.

    
6.
Ibid.

    
7.
Paul Ehrlich,
The Population Bomb
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), xi.

    
8.
Goldberg,
Means of Reproduction
, 62.

    
9.
Quoted in ibid., 77.

  
10.
Ibid., 60.

  
11.
Abigail Fee, “Rethinking Fertility: Modern Contraception and the Ewe Women of Ho, Ghana” (undergraduate thesis, Harvard College, 2005).

  
12.
Allan Rosenfield and Karyn Schwartz, “Population and Development—Shifting Paradigms, Setting Goals,”
New England Journal of Medicine
352, no. 7 (February 17, 2005): 647–49.

  
13.
Ibid.

  
14.
Muhammad Yunus,
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
(New York: Public Affairs, 2003), 134.

  
15.
With contraception this happened gradually, and with abortion the process happened relatively rapidly.

  
16.
Rickie Solinger,
Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America
(New York: New York University Press, 2005), 184.

  
17.
Ibid., 218.

  
18.
Goldberg,
Means of Reproduction
, 98.

  
19.
Rob Stein and Michael Shear, “Funding Restored to Groups That Perform Abortions, Other Care,”
Washington Post
, January 24, 2009.

  
20.
Daniel Nasaw, “Obama Reverses ‘Global Gag Rule’ on Family Planning Organizations,”
Guardian
(London), January 29, 2009.

  
21.
Center for Reproductive Justice, “UNFPA Funds Released,” news release, March 16, 2009,
http://reproductiverights.org/en/press-room/unfpa-funds-released
.

  
22.
Adrienne Germain and Jennifer Kidwell, “The Unfinished Agenda for Reproductive Health: Priorities for the Next 10 Years,” I
nternational Family Planning Perspectives
31, no. 2 (June 2005), 90.

  
23.
Joel Achenbach, “At Summit, Dueling Hemispheres; North-South Rift Over Overpopulation,”
Washington Post
, June 5, 1992.

  
24.
Quoted in Patrick E. Tyler, “Hillary Clinton, in China, Details Abuse of Women,”
New York Times
, September 6, 1995, A1.

  
25.
Shereen El Feki, “The Birth of Reproductive Health: A Difficult Delivery,”
PLoS Medicine 1
, no. 1 (October 2004): 13.