Aileen is back is back to finish of this series on Population Control in Africa. And. It. Gets. BLEAK. I am talking “bribing-women-to-get-sterilized,” “inserting-IUDs-into-13-year-olds’-bodies,” “rewarding-doctors-for-contracepting/steralizing-as-many-women-as-possible,” BLEAK.

Surprisingly, the digression was about the National Anthem of the Soviet Union

Audio Clips:

American Eagle

Last Week Tonight, “One Child Policy”

Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman

Sparkle Sound Effect

That Mitchell and Webb, “Are We the Baddies”

Sources

Butte College, TIP Sheet: Conspiracy and Conspiracism (2019)

Charlotte McDonald, How Many Earths do we Need? (2015)

Clare L. Roepke & Eric A. Schaff, Long Tail Strings: Impact of the Dalkon Shield 40 Years Later (2014)

E. Wesley F. Peterson, The Role of Population in Economic Growth (2017)

Hippolyte Fofack, Changing the Africa Population Narrative (2021)

Karl Itman, African Populations and British Imperial Power, 1800–1970 (2022)

Lisa Baker, Control and the Dalkon Shield (2001)

Mark Dowie, Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephen Minkin, The Charge: Gynocide (1979)

Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (2008)

Matthew Connelly, How did the ‘population control’ movement go so terribly wrong? (2008)

Monica Bahati Kuumba, Perpetuating Neo-Colonialism through Population Control: South Africa and the United States(1993)

Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Population Policy Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Interplay of Global and Local Forces(2016)

Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Population Policy Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Interplay of Global and Local Forces(2016)

USAID Policy Paper, Population Assistance (1982)