Release date: May 28, 2024

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Did you know that, on average, 45% of all human pregnancy is unintended?

What if you always had to make an active, positive choice for pregnancy to occur?

“In this superbly constructed treatise, I am in awe of how Professor Battin runs so much further with the opt-in concept, ending with this perfect summary: 'that everyone can have full personal control of their own fertility is among the greatest gifts we could give ourselves and our planet.'”

John Guillebaud, Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, University College London

“A brilliantly original perspective on reproductive freedom and all its social and environmental ramifications. Battin’s conjecture liberates us to explore the many impacts of unplanned pregnancy without the stigmas attached to contraception, abortion or ‘population control’. It reveals a much kinder world we can all help to bring about.”

Dr. Jane O’Sullivan, University of Queensland, Australia

“The public conversation about abortion is polarizing. It consists of the repetition of stale ideas about right and wrong, women or fetuses. Margaret Battin in Sex and the Planet goes beyond those ideas and offers a much needed third path: safe and effective long-term contraceptive methods one opts into for their reproductive lifetime and opts out of when one is ready to have a baby. Good medicine and good ethics. A book worth reading.”

Frances Kissling, President, the Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy, Washington, DC

“Sex and the Planet is an impressive tour of human sexuality, contraception, and reproduction, imagining a world in which 100 percent of reproduction is planned by the universal use of male and female long-acting reversible contraceptives.”

John K. Amory, Professor of Medicine and Section Head, General Internal Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center