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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 52771 05-01-2012 02:00 AM

April 30th, 2012

Via: Guardian:

Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian women and men, the Observer has learned. Many have died as a result of botched operations, while others have been left bleeding and in agony. A number of pregnant women selected for sterilisation suffered miscarriages and lost their babies.

The UK agreed to give India £166m to fund the programme, despite allegations that the money would be used to sterilise the poor in an attempt to curb the country’s burgeoning population of 1.2 billion people.

Sterilisation has been mired in controversy for years. With officials and doctors paid a bonus for every operation, poor and little-educated men and women in rural areas are routinely rounded up and sterilised without having a chance to object. Activists say some are told they are going to health camps for operations that will improve their general wellbeing and only discover the truth after going under the knife.

Court documents filed in India earlier this month claim that many victims have been left in pain, with little or no aftercare. Across the country, there have been numerous reports of deaths and of pregnant women suffering miscarriages after being selected for sterilisation without being warned that they would lose their unborn babies.

Yet a working paper published by the UK’s Department for International Development in 2010 cited the need to fight climate change as one of the key reasons for pressing ahead with such programmes. The document argued that reducing population numbers would cut greenhouse gases, although it warned that there were “complex human rights and ethical issues” involved in forced population control.

The latest allegations centre on the states of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, both targeted by the UK government for aid after a review of funding last year. In February, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh had to publicly warn off his officials after widespread reports of forced sterilisation. A few days later, 35-year-old Rekha Wasnik bled to death in the state after doctors sterilised her. The wife of a poor labourer, she was pregnant with twins at the time. She began bleeding on the operating table and a postmortem cited the operation as the cause of death.

Earlier this month, India’s supreme court heard how a surgeon operating in a school building in the Araria district of Bihar in January carried out 53 operations in two hours, assisted by unqualified staff, with no access to running water or equipment to clean the operating equipment. A video shot by activists shows filthy conditions and women lying on the straw-covered ground.

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 92288 05-01-2012 02:30 AM

Good grief.

I could see - maybe - alternative forms of birth control that are less invasive of permanent but even that is a little fascist.
Thing is, I've been to India and it's damn crowded. Climate change is a bullshit excuse but for fucksake, that is one populated country.

The least they should do is ban fertility treatments in that country.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 93806 05-01-2012 02:41 AM

And so it begins!

**Shootzoo**

FFS we already know how "government" works with climate change. Thy deal with like the catholic church deals with sin.

f*ck carbon credit!!

f*cking Idiots!!! f*ck them there bastards.

What's next confessionals for corporations? S977

What a load of SHIT!

**Shootzoo**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Good grief.

I could see - maybe - alternative forms of birth control that are less invasive of permanent but even that is a little fascist.
Thing is, I've been to India and it's damn crowded. Climate change is a bullshit excuse but for fucksake, that is one populated country.

The least they should do is ban fertility treatments in that country.

I've been FAR FAR into the futher and India no longer exists. Looks like they slide under Asia. Jhikpghf

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 81677 05-01-2012 02:57 AM

they coulda spent all that money on toothpaste.....

**Shootzoo**

LoP Guest Wrote:

they coulda spent all that money on toothpaste.....

Depends on where it comes from eh?

Just a thought here does America export fluoride.

Well at least you don't get the shit in your water. Cheer

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To bad for us though they hate freedom.

Ok then

So who is they?

**Shootzoo**

LoP Guest Wrote:

they coulda spent all that money on toothpaste.....

I could have been a contenda Jptdknpa

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 81677 05-01-2012 03:12 AM

Shootzoo Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
they coulda spent all that money on toothpaste.....

I could have been a contenda

i seriously doubt the us exports flouride...they are putting all their efforts into depleted uranium and gun powder and royales with cheese.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 44595 05-01-2012 03:42 AM

India is a human freak show. I spent a few months traveling around all the dark corners and saw some of the most bizarre things imaginable.

Without birth control India is a major disaster just waiting to happen, and when it does it will be a doozy!

My girlfriend volunteered at that mission Mother Teresa established, and the first day she ended up taking care of a little girl they found in the gutter starving to death. The girl died in the night because she was a hopeless cause.

I remember a past life there as an elephant trainer/caretaker/laborer. It was a much nicer place then.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 93806 05-01-2012 03:56 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

India is a human freak show. I spent a few months traveling around all the dark corners and saw some of the most bizarre things imaginable.

Without birth control India is a major disaster just waiting to happen, and when it does it will be a doozy!

My girlfriend volunteered at that mission Mother Teresa established, and the first day she ended up taking care of a little girl they found in the gutter starving to death. The girl died in the night because she was a hopeless cause.

I remember a past life there as an elephant trainer/caretaker/laborer. It was a much nicer place then.

That'll be the days before the British Empire.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 93814 05-01-2012 04:03 AM

now, how is that going to change the climate? the climate is going to do whatever she wants, and a far as i can make out, she is gonna kill a lot of us soon.

the planets are all turning on their sides; i fail to see what this has to do with reproductive organs.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 93814 05-01-2012 04:07 AM

i have been to India too. spent some time there. i used to be married to an Indian guy. the best thing they could do for India is to educate their women. get them skills and degrees, help them up to careers. help them to free birth control (not eugenics).

career women don't have time for many children.

if they want to fight the population explosion, then get it into the heads of women that having lots of kids will lower their standard of living; get them to realize that having a job and less kids will raise their family up.

**The Comedian**

Unintended consequences:

The wait for a help desk person to answer your call will go up exponentially.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 44595 05-01-2012 04:26 AM

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