Population Control in the “Global North”?: Canada's Response to Indigenous Reproductive Rights and Neo-Eugenics

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Dyck ◽  
Maureen Lux
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Global North

Population Control in the “Global North”?: Canada’s Response to Indigenous Reproductive Rights and Neo-Eugenics

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (s3) ◽  
pp. s876-s902
Author(s):  
Erika Dyck ◽  
Maureen Lux
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
The North ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Global North

An historical analysis of reproductive politics in the Canadian North during the 1970s necessitates a careful reading of the local circumstances regarding feminism, sovereignty, language, colonialism, and access to health services, which differed regionally and culturally. These features were conditioned, however, by international discussions on family planning that fixated on the twinned concepts of unchecked population growth and poverty. Language from these debates crept into discussions about reproduction and birth control in northern Canada, producing the state’s logic that, despite low population density, the endemic poverty in the North necessitated aggressive family planning measures.

scholarly journals The population control bill, 2021: exploring newer perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3668
Author(s):  
Prerana Nagabhushana ◽  
Avir Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
World Population ◽  
Population Explosion ◽  
Population Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Net Growth Rate ◽  
Do So

As we observe the World Population Day on 11th July, the current population stands at roughly 7.9 billion in 2021, with India bagging the second place at 1.39 billion. The net growth rate stands at 1.1% or 83 million per year and the projected world population by 2050 is estimated to be 9.7 billion. These figures are alarming to us-the millennials, who grew up writing ominous essays on ‘population explosion’ at school. Governments across the world, historically Romania to more recently China, have adopted population policies to control the rate of population growth to cater to their advantage-either economically or politically. Some of them directly against reproductive rights- to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to be able to do so without discrimination, coercion and violence.

Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control.

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 885
Author(s):  
Karen Oppenheim Mason ◽  
Betsy Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Global Politics

Pregnant woman versus mosquito: A feminist epidemiology of Zika virus

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candace Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Zika Virus ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Reproductive Autonomy ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Stratified Reproduction ◽  
Global North ◽  
Political Negotiation ◽  
Access To Contraception

This article investigates the contradictions between public health protocols and infection containment efforts concerning Zika virus and reproductive rights. In El Salvador, for example, women are being advised to avoid pregnancy until 2018, at which time local authorities hope that the virus will be under control. This is not so easy, however, as there is limited access to contraception, abortion is illegal in all instances, and women tend to have little household authority. In this article, I examine the policy, legal, and political contradictions related to the global proliferation of Zika virus in the context of ongoing debates about stratified reproduction. This term conceptualizes the phenomenon that accords different values to reproductive tasks undertaken by women in different socioeconomic, cultural, and national contexts. Whereas reproduction and reproductive autonomy tend to be highly respected and protected for relatively privileged women in the Global North, they tend to be much less so for women of the Global South. Furthermore, the adherence to public and private divisions in both national and transnational contexts segregates reproductive rights from the mainstream of political negotiation and public health intervention, and in doing so frustrates progress toward the realization of global reproductive rights.

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