Contraceptives: Our Choices, Their Choices

Abstract

India has been the first country in the world to have a national family planning programme. When the programme began in 1952, the stated aims and objectives were, towards helping the overall development of individuals and families. Through this, was sought to be achieved, a check on the increasing population. Over a period of time, however, the interests of the families and of the women and men therein, have been repeatedly ignored and the programme has emerged in a true sense as a population control programme.