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As India’s population surges, projected to take over China’s by 2023, women continue to shoulder family planning burdens. The latest National Family and Health Survey (2019-2021), released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, shows a massive disparity between sterilisation rate among married women (38 per cent) and married men (0.3 per cent) in India. In the wake of the upturning of the Roe vs Wade ruling in the US, the disparity undercuts India’s claim at a more forward-thinking approach to birth control.
Birth control disparities
The fifth installment of NFHS revealed a surge in female sterilisations in 14 of
