Identifying the Macro-Level Drivers of Adolescent Fertility Rate in Latin America: The Role of School-Based Sexuality Education

This study seeks to explain macrolevel drivers of adolescent fertility rate using a panel data set derived from 17 Latin American countries over a period of 16 years (1997–2012). While many studies of adolescent fertility have focused on individual-level explanations, this study explores whether adolescent fertility rate is correlated to country-level determinants, specifically legislation adoption that guarantees access to school-based sexuality education, emergency contraception, and abortion. After controlling for other country-level factors, we find that countries that have adopted legislation on school-based sexuality education and those with legal access to abortion (under one or more restrictions) have lower adolescent fertility rates.     

Sunder the Children: Abraham Lincoln's Queer Rhetorical Pedagogy

This essay offers a theory of collective rhetoric derived from a case study of a central rhetorical event of the second wave of feminism, the Redstockings’ 1969 abortion speak-out. A central rhetorical function of consciousness-raising was the collective development of experiential knowledge, and I propose that collective rhetorics are characterized by the collaborative articulation of individual experiences through such rhetorical processes as narrative, irony and humor, and symbolic reversal. I conclude by discussing the importance of collective rhetorical processes in feminist contexts and the potential utility of a theory of collective rhetoric in understanding a range of contemporary discursive forms.     

‘Partnership’ in Action: Contagious Abortion and the Governance of Livestock Disease in Britain, 1885–1921

Most histories of livestock disease in Britain treat the development of control policy as a government responsibility, to which farmers made little constructive contribution. Similarly, farmers rarely appear in accounts of disease research. This paper uses the example of contagious abortion (brucellosis) at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal that state-farming collaboration in research and policy did in fact occur, and that it operated in various ways, with often unexpected outcomes. The collaborative approach to contagious abortion is partly attributed to its clinical and epidemiological features, which made it an unsuitable candidate for the existing, state-led policy of stamping out disease. It is claimed that such collaboration has been overlooked by historians on account of their focus upon diseases that were amenable to stamping out. This focus needs to change if history is to inform present-day disease governance in Britain, which is founded on the concept of ‘partnership’ between farmers and the state.

孕前检查妇女中人工流产现状及其影响因素

目的：了解孕前检查妇女人工流产的现状及影响因素。方法：对2013年1月~12月在荔湾区中心医院孕前检查的2385名妇女进行问卷调查,用Spss 20.0进行统计分析。结果：人工流产率为15.1%,不同年龄、妇科疾病史、避孕措施、生活压力、经济压力妇女的人工流产率差异有统计学意义（p〈0.05）。结论：应加强生殖健康的宣传教育,尤其是关于人工流产后果及避孕措施,以降低人工流产率。     

沧州市住院分娩产妇人工流产史状况分析

目的:调查沧州市住院分娩产妇人工流产史状况,分析其原因,为政府和相关卫生行政部门制定政策和措施降低人工流产率提供科学依据。方法:采用横断面调查的方法,对2006.1~2006.6月在沧州市5所医院住院分娩的2789名产妇进行问卷调查,对其人工流产史状况进行描述性分析。结果:调查对象人工流产比例为48.5%,人工流产次数为1~6次;首次人工流产时年龄的中位数为23岁,最小为15岁,首次人工流产时未婚者比例为47.39%;人工流产比例有随产妇年龄增大而增加的趋势;意外妊娠为人工流产的首要原因。结论:沧州市孕龄妇女人工流产比例高,有向年轻、未婚女性发展的趋势,人工流产原因复杂,应采取科学有效的干预措施来降低人工流产率,减轻人工流产对女性生殖健康的不良影响。