India stopped mass sterilizations a few years back. Now some women struggle to get the surgery

The World

 India used to hold sterilization camps in rural areas as a form of birth control. But they stopped the practice after 14 women at one camp died from complications. Hannah Harris Green looks at the unintended consequences.

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