User:Bendownie/Quechua people

The Fujimori government's 1988-introduced Family Planning initiative was initially lauded by international organizations as heralding sought-after reproductive access reform following decades of fragility in the Peruvian healthcare sector due to the violent conflict between the Government of Peru and the revolutionary Communist organization Shining Path. In 1995, the Cambio 90-led Peruvian Congress, under Fujimori’s leadership, legalized sterilization as a method of reducing the fertility rate, which he framed, if left unchecked, would impede economic growth. The campaign relied on practices that some observers have labelled coercive, where medical professionals were increasingly made to meet sterilization quotas by any means necessary. Peru's Indigenous diaspora, like the Quechua, but also the Aymara and mestizos, were disproportionately coerced into these medical procedures. Indigenous women were often coerced into sterilizations because of their disproportionately low economic status in Peru and lack of access to other forms of healthcare.