Women are being sterilized without their permission or knowledge in Uzbekistan as the result of a secret government policy to keep statistics for maternal and infant death artificially low. Uzbekistan is a small dictatorship in Central Asia and has recently gained strategic importance to countries involved in the conflict in Afghanistan (including the US) as ...
Health officials in Rajasthan are worried about the high population growth in their region so they’re bringing out one of the oldest weapons there are to try and control it: bribery. All Indians can now go to Rajasthan and if they’re willing to get sterilized, they’ll get a prize. Among the options are motorcycles, televisions ...
In America drug addicts are given money in exchange for being sterilized. The theory is they shouldn’t have children and they need some incentive to get the procedure done. Project Prevention has now come to the UK and is paying addicts in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Leicester and parts of Wales £200 to get the snip. ...
A British government Council wanted to force a happily married woman with an IQ of 53 on to birth control pills. This was rejected by the courts but has raised some interesting questions about how far a government can go for the safety of the unborn children and why they think this is okay. The ...
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