The fact is that Western-financed projects concentrate on providing better healthcare in the specific arena of reproductive health simply in order to persuade more people in the third world to use contraception. The individual lives that are saved are incidental to the real agenda, which is to reduce the number of people. In fact, reckless disregard for the lives of third world women is evident even in many of the family planning policies themselves. In the UK much is made of the need for family planning advice to be given by qualified professionals. Many methods are only available from doctors, and organisations like the Family Planning Association often protest that even GPs are not up to the job.
Standards are different for third world projects.
Population Concern, a British charity dedicated to raising funds for third world population programmes, recently launched a campaign to raise money for family planning in Tanzania. The appeal leaflet explained how Population Concern would use the money on short-term training projects so that Tanzanian women could learn how to provide each other with contraception services. Imagine the uproar if they launched a similar appeal in Britain. We would not accept that three weeks of training is sufficient to allow anyone to begin dispensing contraceptives, any more than we would be happy about those people being our friends and neighbours. Third world women have long protested about family planning programmes being used to 'test' contraceptives, to ensure they were safe before use in the West.