ICT 3006- Professional Issues

Impacts of Birth Control In Sri Lanka (Proposal)

Impacts of Birth Control in Sri Lanka

Introduction Despite its low level of per capita income, Sri Lanka has managed to achieve the lowest level of fertility in South Asia. Sri Lanka uses various policies to control its population. Sri Lankan government indirectly participated to control its population from 1948 to 1965. Sri Lankan Government accepted family planning as a national policy as far back as 1965 in a concerted governmental effort to control population growth as well as reduce maternal mortality, infant mortality and malnutrition. Most recently Sri Lankan government uses various family planning methods, well prompted birth control programs to control its population. Considering about birth control, Sri Lankan family planning centers advise to use various birth control methods such as continuous abstinence, natural family planning, barrier methods, hormonal methods, permanent birth control methods, etc. Legal Issues: Sri Lanka does not have much legal issues for birth controlling. Most of the time government indirectly supports birth controlling by its family planning programs. But government hospitals provide support for sterilization by doing Ligation and Resection of Tube (LRT) operations. Considering about Roman Catholics and Islams they have prohibited birth controlling by their religion. Others dont have such special policies like directly prohibiting birth controlling. Effecting Parties: These will effects on whole society because we are engaging with human resources of the country. Any Married couples, unmarried couples or Youngsters will affected directly by this matter. Recently different ethnic and religious groups are directly engaged with this problem. Methods: Use various birth control methods such as continuous abstinence, natural family planning, barrier methods, hormonal methods, permanent birth control methods, Ormeloxifene (Centchroman), intrauterine methods, Emergency contraception, abortion (for special medical reasons) etc. Regulating Parties: Birth control is a very sensitive issue. It is opposed by some groups. Hence, even if governments are able to see the problems that arise from an increasing population on deforestation and decreases sustain the economic development, there would be resistance from religious groups. Most recently Sri Lankan religious groups show their resistance over
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birth controlling due to the decrease of Sinhalese and Buddhists percentage. Those groups complain to the government under guise of providing family planning assistance have directed Sinhala women into Ligation and Resection of Tube (LRT) operations, with the intention of reducing the Sinhalese community from a majority to a minority community in Sri Lanka. Also those religious groups complain about Muslims and their population growth rate. Finally this can be lead to arise racial issues in Sri Lanka. Educating our population regarding population and birth control and its effect on the demand for more land, which in turn means more deforestation is of utmost importance in finding solutions to the deforestation issue. Then perhaps the population-deforestation equation can be made to balance better. Facts Positive By having low population it can help to improve the development state of the country. Since we know still Sri Lanka is a developing country and it provide free education from primary to university level, free health facilities, etc. so having a huge population government have to spend more on maintain the nation. Also having a big population it can cause to raise racial issues such as conflicts and violence when building places of worship, be it a temple, church or a mosque.We can use birth control methods to avoid teenage pregnancies, reduce maternal mortality, infant mortality and malnutrition. The literature seems more focused on avoiding poverty and protecting the earth rather than concern about the population. Birth control is not normally thought about as a child devaluation issue; instead promoters (sometimes well intentioned) believe that birth control achieves better economic, educational, cultural, societal, development and health circumstances in Sri Lanka. Negative Human resource is a valuable and the most important resource to country. We cannot directly say by having a huge population we cannot achieve the development goals in Sri Lanka. We can take human resource as bless to our country. Also by applying various birth control methods they can be harmful to humans to some extent. Like hormone disorders, uterine cancers. Birth control methods can cause to arise some diseases and difficulties and most of the time women affected to those conditions.

This issue is proposed to evaluate and give ethical decision concluding what is the most ethical option that Sri Lankan Government can take. We have analyzed the positive and negative impacts on the Sri Lankan society regarding on the Birth Controlling.

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Group Members No Name 01 02 03 Charaka Hettiarachchi W.L.A.T.A.Lakmali D.M.D.M Wijesundara Index Number 10020942 10021086 10020926 Register Number 2010/ICT/094 2010/ICT/108 2010/ICT/092

Supposed Review Group No Name 01 02 03 W.H Kodituwakku A.A.S Udeshini H.W. Wickaramaarachchi Index Number 10020782 10020901 10021116

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