The Greatest Story Never Told
Early last month more than a hundred women were processed at a “sterilization camp” at the Manikchak Rural Hospital by two doctors. All the guidelines for this kind of event were broken. After the operation, the women, still under the effects of anaesthesia, were dumped in an open field without sanitation. There were no tents. According to the local media, “such frenzied sterilisation camps are routine”.
Rajasthan, in the north of India, has earned the dubious distinction as the state with the most failed sterilizations in 2012. Out of 2,609 failures reported so far this year, 772 were registered in Rajasthan, according to the national government’s statistics.
THE sterilisation of children without their consent must be criminalised, along with the taking of a disabled child overseas with the intention of having them sterilised, the Australian Human Rights Commission says.
According to Theroux, women seeking contraceptive care delivered with dignity, privacy, and in accordance with their own choices, will become increasingly problematic when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act takes full effect in 2014.
Holy Hormones Honey! Finally a landmark court ruling defending reproductive rights and informed consent for women. Forced sterilization has been going on for too many years. If women were in control of their fertility, and if men respected women instead of using our bodies this would be a non-issue. For now every victory in this Continue Reading …
On July 11, World Population Day, the British government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are hosting an international Family Planning Summit in London to launch an ambitious $4 billion contraceptive program initiated by Melinda Gates. On the surface it all sounds good, wrapped in the language of saving and empowering women. But many reproductive health and human rights activists worry that the summit represents a serious backslide to the bad old days of population control when contraception was deployed as a technical fix to reduce birthrates.
Evidence gathered by the BBC suggests that the Uzbek authorities have run a secret sterilization programme over the last two years without women’s knowledge or consent. knowledge.
