Peru: Sterilization Versus Family Planning

Abstract: 15 pages in length. There have been a number of benefits to come out of mandatory birth control in past history. In China, for example, not only has the nation's birth rate dropped significantly over the past decades, but its per capita income has experienced a monumental augmentation -- from 235 yuan back in the early 1970's to twenty-two hundred in 1995 -- that has yielded its people a much more advantageous existence. For Peru, the issue of overpopulation has come full circle to such an extreme that the nation's family planning organization thought it necessary to force sterilize myriad numbers of unwitting females; in many other cases, however, women were offered as much as fifty pounds of food for their consent. Is this practice one might consider unethical, or is it the only means by which a struggling society can even begin to come to grips with its massive overpopulation problem that family planning cannot control? Bibliography lists 15 sources.

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Catagory: Latin-America / Mixed

Subcatagory: Latin-American & Carribean Studies

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