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Bangladesh
Also during the 1970s, Bangladesh implemented its First Five Year Plan (1973-1978) designed to reduce the birth rate through family planning services and reduce poverty among the poorest of the country’s citizens. Largely unsuccessful, the government’s Second Five Year Plan (1980-1985) was another attempt to lower the birth rate and reduce poverty, but this time “cash programs” were introduced. These programs promoted and forced sterilization onto women, and penalized healthcare providers who did not meet monthly sterilization quotas set down by the government. The program reached its height in 1985 when the President declared that population control was the number one priority of the country. Up through 1989, private citizens, midwives, and other public health workers could receive payments for referrals or “motivating” people to undergo sterilization, specifically women (Hartmann 2016). 

Puerto Rico
(There's already a lot of P.R. on this page - maybe just edit/reword some things) Puerto Rican women underwent an extensive sterilization campaign between the late 1930s through the 1970s, in which 34 percent of women of reproductive age were sterilized in order to reduce population on the island and help increase economic development (Mass 1977). In the early 1980s, the rate of sterilization among women of the same age group was 39 percent. However, even though many Puerto Rican women were forced or coerced into undergoing sterilization, la operacion is widely considered a reliable option for birth control now (Lopez 2008).