The Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP) is a national campus-based reproductive rights organization dedicated to educating, mentoring, and inspiring new generations of pro-choice advocates and supporters.
Projects
POPULATION IN PERSPECTIVE
A Curriculum Resource
Population in Perspective is a high school-level curriculum resource that challenges students to think critically about national and international population, development, and environment issues. It is also appropriate for many college level courses.
REVIVING REPRODUCTIVE SAFETY
Reviving Reproductive Safety is a series of publications and activist tools that critically examines the health risks and ethical concerns surrounding contraceptives like Depo Provera and Quinacrine and new reproductive technologies.
DIFFERENTAKES
An investigative series of issue papers published by Pop/Dev providing alternative information and critical analysis on a wide range of reproductive rights and population concerns including militarism, immigration policy, coercive contraception and sterilization, queer and youth issues, and human rights in the U.S. and abroad.
POPULATION POLICY INITIATIVE
The Population Policy Initiative brings alternative research and analysis grounded in women’s rights and social justice to policy makers in population, environment, security and related fields. It strives to impact population policy by encouraging new ways of thinking and creating spaces for dialogue between activists, educators, researchers, and policy makers.
Publications
Babies, Burdens and Threats: Current Faces of Population Control [PDF]
A series of DifferenTakes issue papers, Babies, Burdens and Threats casts a critical eye on the current landscape of population control. It includes articles on topics such as population aging, race and immigration, eugenics and biological determinism, the environment, national security, and a comprehensive overview of why we should rethink and question overpopulation arguments.
Rethinking the Link: A Critical Review of Population-Environment Programs [PDF]
Written by James Oldham, this study reviews projects that combine efforts to reduce population growth with natural resource management and biodiversity conservation. Published jointly by Pop/Dev and the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, the paper evaluates the implications of making this link, including consequences for women's health, community empowerment and environmental justice, and offers recommendations for change.
Reviving Reproductive Safety: Series 1, Fall 2005 [PDF]
A series of DifferenTakes publications that critically examine issues of contraceptive safety, new reproductive technologies, population control and women's health. Reviving Reproductive Safety brings issues of health, safety and social justice to the forefront of the reproductive rights movement.