One stated reason is, it helps reduce the numbers of mothers having babies every year. Having a baby every year increases the risk of premature births, use of the NICU, and of unhelathy or at-risk mothers, or mothers needing cesarean sections.
There's some truth to that. But why can't they discuss that with the mothers and their partners / husbands? Why do they assume the mothers will not wait the recommended 6 weeks before resuming marital relations?
What about Informed Choice as opposed to Informed Consent?
Phyllis

---- Henya KnitMammy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 

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Why are the mothers get Depo if they do not know what it is ? Is this doctor
practising his own brand of social engineering - poor people should not have
to many kids  thing ? If yes , then maybe you should speak to someone about
the hospital's liability for discrimination. It seems to me that the doctor
is not willing to listen anyway.
 Henya Kazatchkov
Brooklyn , NY


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Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC
Glendale, AZ.
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