02790cam a2200301 i 450000100190000000500170001900800410003601000150007702000180009203500220011003500240013204000320015604100080018804200080019605000220020410000380022624501020026426400550036630000450042149000200046650400670048652017610055365000260231465000310234094200080237195200940237999900150247399110735817120619620250616104511.0230818t2024    maua   g b    001 0 eng d  a2023036367  a9780262547987  a(OCoLC)1396252218  a(OCoLC)on1396252218  aDLCbengerdacDLCdCaOTSTM  aeng  apcc00aHQ766b.B277 2024  aBattin, M. Pabst,eauthor.92543510aSex and the planet b: what opt-in reproduction could do for the globe c/ Margaret Pabst Battin. 1aCambridge, Massachusetts :bThe MIT Press,c[2024]  axvi, 240 pages :billustrations ;c23 cm0 aBasic bioethics  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.  aWhat 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.cprovided by publisher. 0aBirth control.925436 0aHuman reproduction.925437  2lcc  00102lcc4070aTBSbTBSd2025-06-13l0oHQ766 PABpB07557r2025-06-13t1w2025-06-13y1  c4739d4739