Post Date: Thursday, September 8, 2016
Population growth is a concern for the Indian government. This has led to a practice, of forceful insertion of IUD as a birth control device. This report looks at this practice and the experience women have had in particular areas of Delhi.
Many hospitals in India routinely insert IUDs, with or without a woman's knowledge or consent, after childbirth and abortion. After visiting the stated slum clusters it became evident that many women from these areas have been subject to such a practice.
All the women shared that insertion of IUD as a family method is not their choice. Coerced insertion of IUD like Copper T in all the cases have occurred in case of poor and marginalized women. Despite women’s denial, they have been compelled to undergo the procedure soon after their delivery that has led to severe health related complications for all the women like excessive bleeding, back ache, weakness, nausea, cramps, vomiting etc. None of the women interviewed were informed, counseled or guided by the government hospital or health care worker about side effects or benefits of the IUD. In most of the cases Copper T has been inserted without her knowledge or is not given an opportunity to provide consent with no follow up or monitoring.
The Indian government is in violation of international human rights law when there is a control of a woman’s fertility without the consent of a woman.
Litigation
- Presentations from the Two Day Webinar on Reproductive Rights on 23rd & 24th of May, 2020
- Patna High Court: Ration facility for all transgender persons
- Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle
- Patna High Court gives favourable order in response to the PIL on water logging in the state
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Fact Finding
- Presentations from the Two Day Webinar on Reproductive Rights on 23rd & 24th of May, 2020
- Report on the State level Consultation in Arunachal Pradesh on 2nd & 3rd November, 2019
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Dictionary
News
- Report of the two day webinar on ‘Access to Reproductive Justice’ on 23rd & 24th May, 2020
- Report of the National level consultation on Trans people and women’s issues- 28th & 29th December, 2019
- Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle