ABSTRACT
On December 20, 1990, the American Food and Drug Agency approved Norplant Contraceptive System, hormonal implants that provide long-term contraceptive protection for women. 1 On January 1,1991, Dar-lene Johnson, a 27-year-old African-American woman, was sentenced to three years on the contraceptive. 2 Within one year of its introduction onto the American market, Norplant moved from marking the increased freedom of women from the routine and uncertainty of birth control to facilitating state intervention in the reproductive choices of certain women.
