 in fact what are called long-acting reversible contraceptives larks such as iuds and implants are disproportionately pushed on women who are young low-income ethnic minorities or mothers already in one story doctors admitted to pushing larks on women whose pregnancy they deemed quote-unquote undesirable see from the beginning the abortion movement has always been rooted in this kind of eugenics thinking but so was much of the push for chemical birth control not to mention it was pushed by those who saw fertility as a problem to be solved not a gift to be protected