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Contraceptives - Vaccine
Anti-Fertility Vaccine Seen As Tool for Governments
September 11th, 1995
To medical researchers in a number of countries, efforts to develop a new class of contraceptives known as "anti-fertility vaccines" bring new hope. But to a global coalition of women's health organizations, the special new drugs would offer a potential threat to the health of women and their children and an invitation to repressive governments to undertake coercive population control programs. Vaccine research by the National Institute of Immunology (NII) in India has caused an uproar there. Women's groups and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have even petitioned Canada's International Development Research Center (IDRC) to cut off...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-09-11)
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