The Family Planning Program Employed by India in the 1970s

question 31

Multiple Choice

The family planning program employed by India in the 1970s consisted basically of

• A) forced sterilization of women after their second child.
• B) forced sterilization of men, fining, and imprisonment.
• C) mass distribution of birth control devices for men and women.
• D) mass distribution of the birth control pill to women of childbearing age.

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