The Wall Street Journal reports on What Britain's Foreign Aid Buys in India
The UK Department for International Development confirms that our £162.2 million of our money has been spent on India's national "Reproductive and Child Health Programme" in order to reduce "disparities in access and use of essential reproductive and child health services." What this actually adds up to in practice is forcible sterilisation of both women and men.
The WSJ is naively benevolent in its assessment of British intentions and protestations of opposition to coercive population control.
The above photo casting doubt on the blessing of pregnancy and quoting Malthus, was judged Best Advertisement on "Population Control" in a contest organised by a leading advertising portal in New Delhi in July 2007.
2 comments:
What a mean-hearted advert. The couple shown didn't have wedding rings, but maybe they are not used in India?
In England it is the common experience of mothers with several young children to be told be outsiders "This is your last, isn't it?" Population worries are an embedded concern deep in most people's subconscious, but one wonders what response would there be to this advert in England with a white couple?
I'm with mater - this is eugenics, which is to say sheer racism. What the UK distributors of aid are saying is that the people targeted are too many, too poor and too brown. There's only one reliable mass contraceptive, and that's rising living standards; India already has the wealth to do this without our "help".
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