Burkina Faso says no to Bill Gates’ plan of creating modified species of mosquitoes

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https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/burkina-faso-says-no-to-bill-gates-plan-of-creating-modified-species-of-mosquitoes/xyk7xm8

[u/justforthisjoke]

Yeah are people forgetting the forced administration of contraceptive shots on Rhodesians or the time the government of Israel lied to Ethiopian immigrants about being given a vaccine when they were being effectively sterilized instead?

[u/HBC_Hair → u/justforthisjoke]

A 2016 study in the International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, for example, argues that “the rapid decline in fertility rates among Ethiopian Israeli women following their migration to Israel was not the result of the administration of [Depo-Provera], but rather the product of urbanization, improved educational opportunities, a later age of marriage and commencement of childbirth and an earlier age of cessation of childbearing.” 

The claim that Israel was deliberately trying to reduce its Ethiopian population also conflicts with the fact, noted above, that the humanitarian organizations in question—and the Israeli government itself—worked actively for decades to bring large numbers of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. [See link for detail]

https://thedispatch.com/article/assessing-claims-that-ethiopian-immigrants-to-israel-received-birth-control-shots-without-consent/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26554851

[u/justforthisjoke → u/HBC_Hair]

Clever bait and switch. Notice how you aren't addressing the claim that Ethiopian women were given DepoProvera without their informed consent, but just talking about the fact that it wasn't the primary cause for the drop in birthrate. It's funny, the subheader on the article says "investigations were inconclusive", but you really have to keep reading to find that the investigation was inconclusive because the Comptroller in charge of the investigation didn't actually speak to the complainants, and that 2 of the organizations being investigated didn't cooperate with the investigation.

[u/HBC_Hair → u/justforthisjoke]

Take it up with the International Journal of Ethiopian Studies.

[u/justforthisjoke → u/HBC_Hair]

No because the journal paper isn't refuting the reality of the situation i.e: that ethiopian immigrants were given DepoProvera without their informed consent. What caused an overarching drop in birth rate is irrelevant. That's why it's a bait and switch. The Israeli government gave ethiopian immigrants a contraceptive without telling them what it was. This can be true even if the administration of that contraceptive wasn't what caused the larger trend of decreasing birth rates. But you know this. You're just trying to make excuses for Israel, which like, why?