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A Free Family Planning Service

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The Fight for Family Planning

Abstract

The final struggle to bring family planning into the National Health Service led to parliamentary drama with a constitutional crisis being only narrowly averted. The decisive opportunity to make the provision of birth control a statutory duty came when legislation was sought to reorganise the whole NHS structure. Throughout, disagreement centred on whether contraception should be provided ‘free’.

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Leathard, A. (1980). A Free Family Planning Service. In: The Fight for Family Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04451-1_21

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