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.
The DifferenTakes Issue Papers Series
The DifferenTakes Issue Paper Series is designed to bring alternative feminist analysis to the media, policymakers, advocacy organizations and activists.
Spring 2008
No. 51: Choosing Nativism: What the Christian Right's Strange Alliance with the Anti-Immigrant Movement Means for Women
No. 50: Flagging an Invisible Difference in a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Depo-Provera [PDF]
No. 49: Decriminalizing Abortion in Mexico City: A Victory for Women’s Health and Rights
Spring 2007
No. 48: India's Saffron Demography: So Dangerous, Yet So Appealing
No. 47: Old Roots, New Shoots: Eugenics of the Everyday
No. 46: From Explosion to Implosion: A Call for Population Skepticism
No. 45: Control Freaks: “Homeland Security” and “Interoperability”
No. 44: What's Wrong with the ‘Demographic Dividend’ Concept?
* Babies, Burdens and Threats Collection [pdf]
Fall 2006
No. 43: Colonizing the Future: “Scarcity” as Political Strategy
No. 42: Too Many Grannies? The Politics of Population Aging
No. 41: The Testosterone Threat: Sociobiology,National Security and Population Control
No. 40: 10 Reasons to Rethink ‘Overpopulation’
* 10 Reasons Color Pamphlet (in English) [pdf] | (en Español) [pdf] [Contact us for copies.]
Spring 2006
No. 39: Population-Environment Programs: Problematic Assumptions and Contradictory Approaches
Fall 2005
Reviving Reproductive Safety: Series 1, Fall 2005
No. 38: The Politics of Abortion and Reproductive Justice: Strategies for a Stronger Movement
No. 37: Ten Reasons Why Prisons are Bad for Reproductive Freedom
* Poster - Legal-size and ready to download. [pdf]
Summer 2005
No. 36: Beyond the Hype: What You Should Know About the Seasonale Birth Control Pill
No. 35: The U.S. Occupation and Rising Religious Extremism: The Double Threat to Women in Iraq
Spring 2005
No. 34: Quinacrine Sterilization in India: Women’s Health and Medical Ethics Still at Risk
No. 33: Egg Donation for IVF and Stem Cell Research: Time to Weigh the Risks to Women's Health
No. 32: Depo-Provera: Old Concerns, New Risks
No. 31: Ten Years After Cairo: The Resurgence of Coercive Population Control in India
No. 30: Reproductive Health and the FDA: Buffeted by Political Battles
Fall 2004
No. 29: The Huntington Challenge: Why The Hispanic Challenge Should Be Discredited
No. 28: A Decade After Cairo: Women’s Health in a Free Market Economy
Winter 2004
No. 27: Conserving Racism: The Greening of Hate at Home and Abroad
No. 26: The War Against Immigrants
Summer 2003
No. 25: Ten Reasons Why Militarism is Bad for Women
No. 24: Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Selection: From Disease Prevention to Customized Conception
No. 23: Conflict of Interest: Maternal-Fetal Conflict and the Politics of Conservation
Spring 2003
SPECIAL EDITION: 10 REASONS WHY MILITARISM IS BAD…
No. 22: Ten Reasons Why Militarism is Bad for the Environment
No. 21: Ten Reasons Why Militarism is Bad for Queer People
No. 20: Ten Reasons Why Militarism is Bad for Reproductive Freedom
Spring 2002
No. 19: The "Youth Bulge": Defining the Next Generation of Young Men as a Threat to the Future
No. 18: Science, Politics, and Reproductive Rights: The Case of Ultrasound Technology
No. 17: Maternal Mortality, Population Control, and the War in Women's Wombs: A Bioethical Analysis of Quinacrine Sterilizations
Winter 2002
No. 16: Vaccination" Against Pregnancy: What You Need to Know
Fall 2001
No. 15: Putting Community Back in the Domestic Violence Movement
No. 14: Human Security: A Gender Perspective
No. 13: The Scapegoating of America's Youth: Past and Present (Mis)Conceptions
Spring 2001
No. 12: Pollution, Communities, and Schools: A Portrait of Environmental Justice on Southern California's "Riskscape"
No. 11: Britain's Man-made BSE Disaster: Boundless and Without Borders
No. 10: The Presidential Election and the Collapse of the Media's Democracy Police
No. 9: U.S. High School Social Studies Textbooks: Perpetuating the Idea of Overpopulation
No. 8: Is Inequality Bad for the Environment and Bad for Your Health?
Fall 2000
No. 7: Viral Roulette: Malaria, Blood, and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
No. 6: Gendered Assaults: The Attack on Immigrant Women
Summer 2000
No. 5: Time to Take a Critical Look at Depo-Provera
Spring 2000
No. 4: The New Eugenics: The Case Against Genetically Modified Humans
No. 3: Why "Demographic Fatigue" Contributes Little to Our Understanding Of Contemporary Africa
No. 2: Cracking Open Crack: Unethical sterilization movement gains momentum
Fall 1999
No. 1: Ten Reasons Why Genetically Engineered Food Won't Feed the World