by APFLI | Mar 27, 2013 | Population Control
The end of the financial year has arrived in India, as it has in a number of other countries, but there the pressure of the bottom line has produced a very shocking effect. Early last month two doctors working at a hospital in the Malda district of West Bengal,...
by APFLI | Aug 6, 2008 | Abortion - Archive, Human Development, Prenatal Surgery
As people in India join a national abortion debate following an appeals court’s rejection of a couple’s request for a late-term abortion, the issue of fetal pain is coming into play. One aspect of the debate revolves around whether or not unborn children...
by APFLI | Mar 3, 2008 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism
To combat the ever-worsening gender ratio in India, government officials are unveiling a new plan to pay poor women and their families to avoid sex-selection abortions and infanticides. Authorities hope the payments will stop the estimated 500,000 deaths of girl...
by APFLI | Apr 17, 2007 | Abortion - Archive
Officials in India are investigating the deaths of an abortion practitioner and his nine year-old daughter. Jayanta Bag was found dead in his home a few days ago and authorities say the deaths could be tied to an illegal pornography ring he was involved in where he...
by APFLI | Feb 9, 2006 | STDs, STIs, HIV - Archive
Recent surveys have shown the HIV prevalence rate in Bihar to be about five times higher than what was believed all this while. Eight populous districts in the state have been found grappling with an HIV epidemic with alarmingly high prevalence rates. [India Times,...
