Introduction : a great thing for poor folks -- Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and in Mill Village Alley : the history of public birth control services -- Nothing is removed except the possibility of parenthood : women and the politics of sterilization -- I knew that it was a serious crime : negotiating abortion before Roe v. Wade -- Taking foam powder and jellies to the natives : family planning goes abroad -- Epilogue : from the footnotes to the headlines : sterilization apologies and their lessons.