Robert Goldstein on Women's Procreative Choice

Robert Goldstein (UCLA School of Law) has posted Picturing the Life Course of Procreative Choice on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

For a substantial part of women’s lives, regulating fertility is a primary project. This Article depicts the life course of women’s procreative choice through a series of complex visual representations of data derived from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the National Survey of Family Growth 2002. These graphic representations illustrate that preventing procreation, through a variety of choices, including contraception, sterilization, abortion, abstinence, and partner choice, occupies most of a woman’s fertile years, as compared with childbirth.