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Common structures underlying state control of pregnant and prostitute women are analyzed as a process of labor appropriation and subordination of women. On a global level, state regulation of pregnancy and prostitution has been incorporated into “population control” and “migration control”, most specifically under the name of “family planning” and “anti-trafficking”. Although those policies fit within a coherent system, reproductive and sexual labor issues are most often isolated, or framed as ideological and strategic opposites by the right-wing, as well as by many left-wing and feminist activists and NGOs. This false dichotomy reinforces the division of women and colludes with institutional hypocrisies and injustices.