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When Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath chose the occasion of World Population Day on July 11 to announce a new state population policy, there normally should have been no quarrel about it. After all, the state is India’s most populous, harbouring nearly 200 million people (as per Census 2011) or 17 per cent of India’s population. If it were to become a nation, Uttar Pradesh would have the fifth largest population in the world.
So instead of welcoming a policy to control the state’s burgeoning population, why was there such a storm over Yogi’s announcement? Sure, some of the birth control measures are coercive. While pushing for a two-child policy per couple, the state plans to introduce both incentives and disincentives to ensure its implementation. In terms of incentives, government servants adopting the two-child norms would get two additional increments during their service apart from being eligible for maternity or paternity leave for 12 months with full salar
Can Contraception Services Be Made Disaster-proof?
A survey conducted by WHO in 105 countries to assess the impact of Covid-19 on essential services, estimated that family planning services were disrupted in 68% of the countries. Representational Image/ Unsplash Vinoj Manning, Dr S Shantha Kumari 2021-07-11T06:46:17+05:30 Can Contraception Services Be Made Disaster-proof? outlookindia.com 2021-07-11T06:49:14+05:30
The last 15 months have led to tremendous disruption in the lives of people worldwide. Covid-19 has had an unprecedented impact on healthcare delivery systems - not just on critical services, but also on routine services including contraception. An analysis conducted by UNFPA and Avenir Health for 115 low-and middle-income countries in January 2021 estimated that 12 million women may have been unable to access family planning services as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. A survey conducted by WHO in 105 countries to assess the i
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A substandard health system devotes its resources to men
May 11
By: Neeta Lal
Bindiya Kumari, 26, a farmer from Dumaria village, located 175 km from capital city Patna in India’s poorest state of Bihar, has had two miscarriages since her marriage in 2018. Her plight sadly is neither rare nor exceptional. She and millions like her are the victims of a grossly substandard health care system that seriously neglects women and whose defects have been tragically magnified by the second wave of the coronavirus that has been ripping through the country.
The nearest hospital in Dumaria is 20 km away, Kumari says, so each time her delivery date arrived, the arduous journey to a medical facility in a rickety bus caused excessive bleeding, resulting in the death of her two unborn children.
India’s amended abortion law still gives doctors, not women, the final say in terminating pregnancy
The liberalised law allows termination of pregnancy up to 24 weeks, but only for special categories of vulnerable women. Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters
The terms for abortion have been liberalised in India after an amended
law received the President’s assent on March 25. But gender and reproductive rights activists are disappointed that the law still does not recognise abortion as a woman’s choice that can be sought on-demand, as is the
practice in 73 countries.
These are the key changes that the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021, has brought in: