Women and Drugs
Politics Of Birth Control
Population
control, Family planning and Family Welfare are terms used interchangeably but
they are distinctively different.
• Population
control refers to a large scale policy of limiting birth.
• Family planning
involves the provision of birth control facilities for planning the number of
children, the frequency of child birth and spacing of children.
• Family welfare
is a larger concept which deals with the improvement and betterment of the
level and standard of living of a family.
In India the
solution to our socio-economic problems of poverty deprivation, overcrowding is
seen to lie with the population control policy.
The history of
the last three centuries the world over has shown that increasing levels of
unemployment and poverty are a result of governments economic policies and not
due to over population.
Using the
economic vulnerability, the government has provided the people with economic
incentives to popularise birth control.
The fact that
even this has not helped the government to achieve its target shows that the
basic problems of poverty social justice and ill health cannot be bypassed.
The myth of over
population and dwindling resources has greatly influenced the public mind in
the west and the governments in third world countries.
USAID, IPPF and
Population Council are the biggest contraceptive providers in bulk quantities
free of cost to the third world countries. They indirectly help the
contraceptive industry.
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