The Uzbek human rights group Najot and the Expert Working Group, an independent Uzbek think tank, alleged this week that Uzbekistan's Health Ministry has instructed government doctors to perform hysterectomies on women to help control the nation's population, the AP/Google reports. In mid-February, the Health Ministry of the former Soviet nation issued a decree ordering doctors to recommend hysterectomy as an "effective contraceptive" and to persuade "at least two women" per month to have the procedure, according to Sukhrobdzon Ismoiliv, a coordinator for Expert Working Group...
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