Author Topic: Forced sterilizations in India - to prevent climate change (Read 702 times)

Matthew · « **on:** May 02, 2012, 12:24:45 PM »

To Fight Climate Change, UK Funds Forced Sterilisation of India’s Poor

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 docuмents 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 docuмent 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.

Marcelino · « **Reply #1 on:** May 02, 2012, 02:25:48 PM »

Man Made Global Warming is bologna. The Earth goes through normal cycles of warming and cooling. The reports of our impact on that have been greatly exaggerated. Apparently, for the purpose of rationalizing programs like these.

There's plenty of food to feed everyone. If there's a problem, it is a man made problem of distribution, not production.

So, what's the real motive here?

I think it is very interesting that in America a working man used to be able to support a wife and kids, working 40 hours a week and still maintain a lifestyle, that didn't require "extreme" frugality and "rigid" planning. Nowadays, the percentage of men who can do that is less than 1 out of 4. So, when our rulers lie to us and tell us that we need to lower population growth, I can understand that, because they need to justify an economy, that doesn't enable the natural formation and growth of families. But, what I don't get, is when they take aggressive anti-population growth measure like these. It's as if they've declared war on these people and the only solution they can think of, is "extermination."

You'd think if your goal was to lower the price of labor, you'd welcome population growth, unless perhaps, if your goal was short term, with little regard for the future and of course, for the well being of others and God's blessing. In other words, if you wanted to free up the poor women of India to go to work as soon as possible, then you might see programs like these as a way to achieve that goal. Once the women stop breeding, they go to work. What else are they gonna do?

In America, wages and benefits are getting slashed, while taxes (think things like property taxes and excise taxes on gasoline and inflation) go up, up, up. So, women are pressured to work and men are pressured to give into that. All the while, we're told how "rich" we'll be, with both working and no kids or maybe just one or two.

The new "ideal:" both work and have only one kid. Well, there's no shortage of wealth, like food, it's a just a problem of distribution.

Marcelino · « **Reply #2 on:** May 02, 2012, 02:29:49 PM »

This "married" couple will not be having any children. But, they'll both work and spend every penny of it, because there's nobody to leave it to and no future to worry about.

(sorry, i couldn't resist!)

Zenith · « **Reply #3 on:** May 02, 2012, 11:53:24 PM »

Quote from: Marcelino

This "married" couple will not be having any children. But, they'll both work and spend every penny of it, because there's nobody to leave it to and no future to worry about.

(sorry, i couldn't resist!)

:barf:

Marcelino · « **Reply #4 on:** May 03, 2012, 03:25:30 PM »

And, people like this are easier to manipulate, because they feel guilty and ashamed of the way they live. So, they need approval and the mass media, as well as presidents speaking from the oval office or doctors with lab coats, can give it to them and use that approval to control them, something like a drug dealer would control an addict with illicit drugs.

It's like an unholy "alternative" to repentance.