BBC anchor can't fanthom Africans have their own thought on contraception, abortion

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Interesting debate.

I Google that African woman and she is an anti-abortion activists, but is she against contraception as a whole?
 
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African are skeptical of Europeans pushing drugs for a reason.

Contraception was first tested on Puerto Rican by drug companies first and they sterilized them.


Guinea pigs or pioneers? How Puerto Rican women were used to test the birth control pill.
Guinea pigs or pioneers? How Puerto Rican women were used to test the birth control pill.
In the mid-1950s, the first large-scale human trial of the pill was launched in a public housing project in Puerto Rico – and the distrust was immediate.

Three women in the trials died. But no autopsies were conducted, and so it remains unclear if their deaths were linked to the drug, which was given in much higher doses than it is today.

Critics have compared the Puerto Rican trials to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which the government conducted research on African American men in Alabama for 40 years. In 2010, the government also apologized for a U.S.-funded studythat involved deliberately infecting hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases between 1946 to 1949.

But Marsh and other historians say the ethical questions raised by the pill’s testing are more complicated than those cases.

“In some ways, it was exploitative – you’re giving this drug that you don’t really know for sure what its effects are going to be,” Marsh said. “On the other hand, the people involved in developing it really believed it was safe.”


He details how in the first year of the trial, about 25 percent of the women quit “because they either lost interest or found the medication undesirable.” Dizziness and nausea were frequent complaints of the drug, which at that time was given at a much higher dose than available today. After a year in San Juan, he writes that other projects were launched in Humacao, Puerto Rico, and in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

“Most of these women really did understand why they were taking the pill,” Marsh said. “They may have been poor, but they certainly had aspirations for their families.”

“The experiments were both good and bad,” Delia Maestre told the Orlando Sentinel, crying. “Why didn’t they let us make some decisions for ourselves? I have difficulty explaining that time to my own grown children. I have very mixed feelings about the entire thing.”
 
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