“…In the 1970s, the Mexican government began implementing family planning policies that resulted in great social inequalities and human rights violations (Sánchez-Rivera, 2021): the Family Planning Plan and the Global Development Plan in 1977, which sought to limit population growth to 1% until 2000, allowed for the systematic implementation of contraceptives and sterilisation processes mostly targeted towards mainly indigenous, working-class families in rural areas of the country. These same population control laws and policies have been repeated in other countries across Latin America, such as through the systematic, involuntary sterilisation of more than 300,000 indigenous people in Peru by Fujimori's administration between 1996 and 2000(Necochea López, 2014 Reproductive violence is a troubling legacy shared by many countries in the region (Schell, 2010).Current debates show the unequal and contested forces that continue to govern access to contraception, abortion and the provision of quality reproductive and obstetric healthcare. Attempts to fulfil development goals (e.g., the Millennium Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals) by improving maternal and neonatal mortality have legitimised the introduction of technologies to medicalise birth and reproduction, resulting in a dramatic upsurge in births by caesarean section in many Latin American countries.…”