FRONT ROYAL, Va., January 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Population Research Institute reports that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the National Population Council of Mexico (CONAPO), have engaged in "involuntary sterilization and coercive family planning."

According to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, "Public health servants have imposed methods of family planning on the native population without their consent and without informing them of the risks." Threats and bribes are used to deprive men and women of their right to determine for themselves the timing and spacing of pregnancies, adds PRI.

Over 40 case studies of victims were obtained in Mexico this summer, noting the following abuses: covert abortion under the guise of "normalization of menstruation"; clandestine placement of IUDs, and involuntary signing of "informed consent" documents in order to sterilize victims. In one alarming case, a woman testified that, while undergoing a caesarian delivery, her fallopian tubes were ligated (tied) without her foreknowledge or consent.
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