Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Green for Safe. The idea of sterilization is as repugnant to many Indians as to anyone else. But India's planners are determined. India's annual population growth would fill a city as big as New York, and there is always the prospect of not enough food to...
The operation that Maharashtra's doctors were performing in such numbers last week is a vasectomy, a simple surgical procedure that is less costly, complicated and confining than female sterilization. The surgeon merely snips off a small section of the vasa deferentia, the tiny tubes that transport sperm from...
Vasectomies are not foolproof; the sperm-carrying tubes may regenerate themselves if not properly tied off. A Bombay patient recently went insane when his wife twice conceived after he had undergone a vasectomy, and "sterilized" Indian peasants have beaten their pregnant wives or abandoned them in the uninformed belief that...
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"Gift of God." In Hindu and Moslem India, there are no clear-cut religious objections to either contraception or sterilization, but most Indians believe that children are a "gift of God," and well-wishers at wedding ceremonies toast the bride by saying "May you have a hundred sons." The toast...