The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) on 29 April 1999 revised its classification of quinacrine for female sterilization (QS) from “accepted” to “acceptance not established,”1 undercutting chief quinacrine advocate Stephen D. Mumford’s main “justifications” for pressing for widespread QS throughout the developing world. To date, Mumford has
Stephen D. Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security (CRPS) and chief advocate of quinacrine sterilization worldwide, has moved his stockpile of some 290,000 quinacrine pellets and 1,536 quinacrine-filled inserters “abroad” to “avoid conflict”1 with the US Food and Drug Administration
The Institute for Development Training seems to believe women should be sterilized, chemically if necessary, in the name of Christ. Incorporated in North Carolina in 1981, IDT has become the latest group to push quinacrine hydrochloride as a method of sterilizing women. This controversial procedure
A method of sterilizing women by burning their fallopian tubes and upper uterus with acid is the latest procedure to find favor with certain prominent worldwide population control advocates. The procedure, called quinacrine sterilization, uses a modified intrauterine device (IUD) applicator to introduce quinacrine pellets
The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) on 29 April 1999 revised its classification of quinacrine for female sterilization (QS) from “accepted” to “acceptance not established,”1 undercutting chief
Stephen D. Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security (CRPS) and chief advocate of quinacrine sterilization worldwide, has moved his stockpile
The Institute for Development Training seems to believe women should be sterilized, chemically if necessary, in the name of Christ. Incorporated in North Carolina in
A method of sterilizing women by burning their fallopian tubes and upper uterus with acid is the latest procedure to find favor with certain prominent
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