Poll taxes, property requirements, and race and gender-based voting prohibitions codified thinly disguised discrimination in darker periods in United States history. Today, in the world's largest democracy, local laws restrict political participation to people who have two or fewer children.
These are just a few of the details about India's "family planning" programs that have emerged in the wake of the latest population control tragedy: the deaths in November of 14 women at a government sponsored sterilization "camp" in central India where health officials' reports say 83 women underwent surgical sterilization at the hands of one doctor in just a few hours.[1]
PRI has numerous documents which demonstrate unambiguously that America's foreign aid agency USAID has underwritten such camps in India for decades. They also establish that the agency - in concert with a host of American charity groups, India's biggest bank and private funders like Bill and Melinda Gates - has been the primary architect and a major overseer of the country's state-run population control.
Two days after the news broke about the deaths of the women in Chhattisgarh at an abandoned rural hospital - while Indian health officials and human rights activists were denouncing the camp and the surgeon who conducted it was hiding from the swelling numbers of protesters in the district of Bilaspur - it was business as usual in the rural town of Gaurella just about 40 km north where workers were holding their twice-weekly sterilization day at the local health center.
The death toll was not as high - only one woman died but many more were hospitalized. It probably wouldn't have been reported at all except for the events earlier in the week. The Delhi based Human Rights Law Network had sent an activist and two lawyers to speak with the deceased women's relatives and health workers in Chhattisgarh. The stories recounted in their report released in December illustrate one of the darkest and cruellest population control regimes on earth.[2]