Contraception

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When forced prevention administering is contraceptives against the will of the parties concerned understood with or without information about the effect.

Germany

The inquiry commission of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia warned in 2004 that compulsory contraception for mentally handicapped women in homes could also encourage sexual assault because the acts were less discovered.

Switzerland

In Switzerland, contraception for disabled people was declared inadmissible. Until the 1990s, "there was a quasi systematic contraception, mainly through hormone injections", until a rethink in the homes took place.

Israel

In Israel in December 2012, allegations became public that immigrant Ethiopian Jewish women may have had medroxyprogesterone injections under the brand name Depo-Provera every three months in the transit camps . Already in 2008 it was noticeable that a high proportion of women of Ethiopian origin were given three-month injections in the clinics and that the birth rate of this population group fell sharply.

At the end of January 2013, the Israeli Health Minister Ron Gamzu explicitly instructed the medical profession not to prescribe any more medroxyprogesterone if the affected patients, for whatever reason, are not aware of the effects of this treatment. Allegations that contraception were used are being investigated.

Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the Partij van de Arbeid wanted to bring a bill into parliament that would require women who are addicted to drugs or have psychiatric disorders and whose first child had been taken away by the authorities to use contraception until after the Overcoming their problems are again able to raise a child independently. Pieter van Vollenhoven, former chairman of the Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid , also spoke out in favor in 2012.

People's Republic of China

Intrauterine devices were forcibly used in the People's Republic of China until the 1980s to enforce the one-child policy .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The future of women-friendly health care in North Rhine-Westphalia: Report of the study commission of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Springer DE, September 15, 2004, p. 160
  2. Forced contraception for disabled people is not permitted . In: Tages-Anzeiger , February 4, 2012 ( online )
  3. Bénédicte Giriens, Beat Moeckli, Hugues Simon, Maria Stoichita, Guillaume Wegmüller, Biological and Medical Faculty Lausanne: sexuality and contraception in 21 accommodated in the home women with trisomy In: PrimaryCare , 2013; 13: No. 2, p 34. online (PDF; 38 kB)
  4. Quote from Efrat Yardai: “ It's hard to believe, but in Israel, in 2012, Ethiopian women are forced to receive injections of the Depo-Provera contraceptive. ”From: An inconveivable crime. Israel's patronizing and inhumane treatment of Ethiopian women is nothing new. In: Haaretz , December 11, 2012 ( online )
  5. a b Ulrike Putz: Ethiopian Jewish women: Israel disputes over allegations of forced contraception. In: Spiegel Online , January 29, 2013 ( online )
  6. Controversy about Ethiopian Jews: Israel prohibits forced contraception. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 29, 2013 ( online )
  7. Jonathan Cook: Israel's treatment of Ethiopians 'racist'. In: The National (Abu Dhabi) , January 6, 2010 ( online )
  8. Controversy about Ethiopian Jews: Israel prohibits forced contraception. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 29, 2013 ( online )
  9. PvdA: gedwongen anticonceptie parool.nl, 15. September 2009
  10. PvdA wil wet voor gedwongen anticonceptie Volkskrant 23 November, 2005
  11. Pleidooi committed anticonception . NOS, April 13, 2012
  12. ^ Meilian, Lin: Zurich Insurance Group . In: Global Times , January 13, 2013 ( online ( memento from March 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ))