Norplant - A Long Acting Contraceptive Implant: A Critical Review

Abstract

Stree Shakti Sanghatana (Hyderabad) Saheli (Delhi), Chingari (Ahmedabad) and several women, were co-petitioners in a case in the Supreme Court in 1986 which demanded a court ruling on introduction of contraceptive NET-EN. The petition demanded that the contraceptive should be introduced in Indian family planning program only after it was adequately tested in the country for short and longterm risks. It also demanded that there is an assurance that the women were given adequate and accurate information so that abuse in a target oriented program would be prevented. Conditions for adequate medical screening and
follow- up were, demanded to be assured at peripheral health centers before potentially dangerous contraceptives' were introduced in the Indian family planning program.