NEW DELHI -- The women were poor, from villages in central India where the promise of a few dollars is all but impossible to resist. Many had babies so young, they were still nursing at their mothers' ...

We turn now to India, a country that has long tried to curb its population growth. In the 1970s, India introduced a forced sterilization program as a method of birth control. Sterilization is still in ...

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NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 11 Indian women are dead and 20 others seriously ill Wednesday after undergoing free sterilization operations, highlighting the risks women face in reproductive health in a ...