Reproductive rights and population control in Zimbabwe.

Abstract

The author argues that population control in Zimbabwe, in other developing countries, and even in developed countries is targeted at non-whites and at the poorer classes. She discusses fertility vaccines and male sterilization in this context, and makes the point that while the technology of population control flows from the North to the South, resources from the South are flowing North to maintain the economic status quo. "I think that the real population problem is the widening gap between a few greedy, irresponsible people, most of whom happen to be located in the North, and the rest of humankind, whose lives have been so denigrated that they are now merely statistics.... We can easily see that what should be feeding, clothing, housing, healing, pleasing Africans, goes North, all in the name of ¿development'."