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The quinacrine trials raise a host of questions regarding the safety of this method of sterilization and the methodology used to assess this.
Otempora! O mores! This cri decoeur will perhaps be evoked in those reading the spate of reports lately, on surreptitious "trials" on the non-surgical sterilization of women with quinacrine, being carried out by NG0s and private doctors in a host of places in the country.
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