Peruvian President Fujimori and his sterilization teams were targeting the poorest of Peruvian women, forcing them to 'agree' to sterilization through tubal ligations.
The next time you read dry, faceless statistics about forced abortion in China, remind yourself that behind the numbers are real women and real babies – like Yang Pingan and the babies she lost under China’s “one child per family” law.
With officials seemingly obsessed with population control, health and sanitation take a secondary role to the priority of meeting sterilization targets. This abuse of power cannot go on.
On August 31st, 2013, more than 50 women and their children were told by Sri Lankan population controllers that unless they accepted a hormonal contraceptive insert, they would not be allowed any future treatments at the hospital.
"How will officially successfully extort huge fines...if they can't threaten women with forced abortion and sterilization for not paying up?" asks Steven Mosher.