Money from the Department for International Development has helped pay for a controversial programme that has led to miscarriages and even deaths after botched operations
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.
This article reads like a Nazis manual. Hitler would have been proud of those who provided funds to sterilize poor people
Green acceptable collateral damage. And the expendable victims aren’t white people. Having no financial or political power, they’re irrelevant anyhow.
The problem with a posting such as this is that reproduction is the ultimate hot button issue.
To put the matter in a related context, look at the resistance to vaccinations. “Grab them and Stab them” was used by the actor Jim Carey to fight vaccinations. Misguided Imams resist the program to eradicate polio. Holy Cow!
People can get so worked-up over abortion that they murder doctors. Although that crime is rare, the Nazi like harassment of clinics is distressing and common.
Chinese people have suffered mass famine as late as 1960 and have responsibly enacted its one-child policy. Certainly India has a moral obligation to confront responsibly its excess fecundity. Sterilization is a reasonable component of a population control policy.
Horrifying phrase that:
Mass brutal genocide is the next insane “scientific” fad.
You will also notice they only want to sacrifice someone else to their “green gods”, certainly not themselves or their ilk.