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Article Evaluation
I viewed the article over National Center for Health Statistics and one of the first things I noticed on this articles page is that there was an alert icon with a message at the top of the page. The message basically said that the article is written like an advertisement and was asking the Wikipedia editors to improve the page by editing it from a neutral stand point and not everything is relevant to the top because some things are promoting rather than informing. The article is not neutral, as the alert said at the top, this article is biased and needs non-biased edits. There are viewpoints in this article that would not fit for a good example of an article, it favors more viewpoints than others and acts as an advertisement which is not the point if the article. The few sources that are cited for the article do work and help support some claims in the article. Some facts in the article are not followed by a reference, it is seen bias because there is a vast majority of the information does not have a reliable reference to back up the fact. This article is rated as a maintenance category but is often an interest to wikiprojects and there are no conversations on the Talk page. The way the article talks about health statistics is different than class because this is strictly based on facts and evidence and in class we use it as application purpose and compare different populations with numbers.  Generally, really nice response - Prof Hammad 

Article Notes
In the Family Planning in India article, I plan on added more number based facts since the article is currently written as a personal reflection rather than an informational article. Placing more researched facts and statistics will hopefully help develop the article into a more reliable article and written more in encyclopedia style rather than a blog or post of someone else's opinion. Another edition to the article would be more information around the current programs in place and how they are improving the family planning, placing evidence or proof of the work of the programs will help form more structure to the article.

https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-4755-9-17

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Intro
In 2015, the total fertility rate of India was 2.40 births per women and 15.6 million abortions performed, with an abortion rate of 47.0 abortions per 1000 women aged between 15-49 years. With high abortions rates follows a high amount of unintended pregnancies, with a rate of 70.1 unintended pregnancies per 1000 women aged 15-49 years. Overall, the abortions occurring in India make up for one third of pregnancies and out of all pregnancies occurring, almost half were not planned. On the Demographic Transition Model, India falls in the third stage due to decreased birth rates and death rates. In 2026, it is projected to be in stage four once the Total Fertility Rate reaches 2.1.

Contraceptive Usage
In 2015, there was an average 58% of women who used contraceptives, with female sterilization still being the most preferred and favored among 91% of women. Higher rates of sterilization are seen among women who hold less education than those with more education. Those with higher education have lower rates due to the delay of getting married and childbirth. 77% of the women who underwent sterilization had not used an alternative contraception prior to the procedure and most women were under the age of 26, who seem to have many options available in regards to protection. According to Family Planning 2020, in 2017 there were 136,569,000 women using modern method contraception which prevented: 39,170,000 unintended pregnancies, 11,966,000 unsafe abortions, and 42,000 maternal deaths due to family planning. In 2012, India's modern contraception prevalence rate among all women was 39.2, in 2017 it was 39.57, and in 2020 is predicted to rise to 40.87.

Family Planning Program
Family planning program benefits not only parents and children but also to society and nation, by being able to keep the number of new births under control allows for less population growth. With less population growth this will allow for more resources towards those already existing in the Indian population, with more resources comes longer life expectancy and better health.

''' Hannah - I think these changes are really nicely done. My only suggestion is that you think about how this is tied back to the DTM - Prof H ''' I think you did a great job of incorporating vital statistics, abortion rates and other pertinent information to further support the existing argument. However, the last sentence of the third paragraph (under contraceptive use) does not seem to be a neutral statement. To include various aspects of the issue, you could talk about the argument against family planning in India. You could talk about the various religions in India that oppose it and believe it wrong to intervene in conception. You could also talk about the way Indian society sees sex especially in young girls. -Samantha Gonzalez

I noticed that you have not made changes to your article but I still think it would be useful to add information about the perspective opposing family planning programs. -Samantha Gonzalez

Two-Child Policy
As of 2014, there were 11 Indian states that implemented the two-child policy, in hopes to reduce the amount of children per family. The policy was geared mainly towards politicians, future and aspiring, to limit their number of children to two or less. Those who held poltician jobs have stricter policies in hopes that they will set an example for the community, if one were to exceed the limit of two children while employed, they would be terminated from the job. Non-polticians may also receive consequences to exceed the two child limit, the government begins to withhold health care, government rights, face jail and, fees.