Abstract
Some 30 years after the event the Emergency Period remains the one episode in the history of family planning in India that would appear to require no introduction. It has become emblematic of everything that can go wrong in a program premised on control rather than on reproductive rights and health. This included time-bound performance targets; a preference for methods that minimized the need for sustained motivation; disregard for basic medical standards; incentive payments that for the very poorest constituted a form of coercion; disincentives that punished nonparticipation; and official consideration of compulsory sterilization which even if never enacted into law signaled that achieving national population targets might override individual dignity and welfare. (excerpt)
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