BAD NEWS.An Argentinian bioethics bioethics, in philosophy, a branch of ethics concerned with issues surrounding health care and the biological sciences. These issues include the morality of abortion, euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, and organ transplants (see transplantation, medical). society has condemned the sterilization sterilization Any surgical procedure intended to end fertility permanently (see contraception). Such operations remove or interrupt the anatomical pathways through which the cells involved in fertilization travel (see reproductive system). of indigenous women in Latin American countries, especially Peru, Brazil, and Mexico. In a statement reported by the AICA AICA Agencia Informativa Católica Argentina AICA Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica e il Calcolo Automatico AICA Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery AICA Australian Infection Control Association AICA Associazione Italiana Catene Alberghiere press agency, the group called a government effort to limit Indian births one of "eugenics eugenics (y  jĕn`ĭks), study of human genetics and of methods to improve the inherited characteristics, physical and mental, of the human race. ." The statement described a campaign in which poor women are lured by offers of food and clothing but find these items available only if they agree to sterilization. "It would seem," the group said, "that the [eugenics-promoting] laws of the early part of this century ... are now practiced by some `Mengeles' of the end of the century in the continent of hope." |
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