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• . As the articles in this issue clearly demonstrate, the many violences associated with reproductive governance are relentlessly presented as, or masquerade as, “something else”: a concern with criminal or immoral behaviors, for example, sometimes resulting in a moral panic; the imposition of allegedly necessary controls, most often on women’s and ...
• We present the articles in this issue, all of which offer rich analyses around reproductive and gender/sexual governance, in that spirit.
• Belfrage offers a nuanced approach to the ways in which power is shifting through abortifacient pills, not only in the hands of women, but also within processes of neoliberal governance that are ongoing, partial, and contested
• Madeleine Belfrage, whose article works to conceptualize self-induced abortion as a part of reproductive governance mechanisms in Mexico.
• while this change was potentially feminist in its orientation, implicitly acknowledging the limits of the essentialist, pronatalist approach of the MNCH policies, its implementation followed a neoliberal, developmentalist approach committed to a human capital model of empowerment, which transformed the maternal subject into a wise capital investmen...

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