-Peru to continue controversial family planning programme

  • 27/02/1998

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

The Peruvian government on Thursday said it would continue a controversial family planning programme that includes the sterilisation of poor women but added there would be restrictions.The policy change comes amid US threats to cut off family planning aid and accusations by church groups that Peruvian doctors were coercing or bribing poor women into accepting tubal ligations in order to meet government quotas.