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I will be working predominantly on the Norplant Wikipedia page while adding new sections and revising others. I will be linking Dorothy Roberts, her book Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (this page I will be creating), and the Norplant pages together.

To the Norplant page I added information to the current section titled Use to the Developing World:

"The Bangladesh Fertility Research Program (BFRP) also used Norplant in an attempt for population control."

"Indonesia, the country with one of the largest populations in the world, was one of the first countries to use Norplant. The Indonesian government dispensed Norplant at a high rate to decrease population growth. However, this led to a decrease in citizen's rights. For example, in Bogor, only employees who use Norplant as a method of contraceptive received their paychecks on time while other jobs required proof of Norplant use."

I added a section titled Controversy including the following:

"After FDA approval, The Inquirer on December 12, 1990 published an editorial entitled "Poverty and Norplant: Can Contraception Reduce the Underclass?" This article by Donald Kimelman related Norplant to the fact that half of all black children in America live in poverty. It also endorsed giving women incentives to use the contraceptive. These incentives included public aid and financial gain."

I created a page on Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty where I will be summarizing the ideas of the book. I linked this to Dorothy Roberts Wikipedia page and also added Norplant in the description of her book with a link.