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Mara Hvistendahl’s research leads her into the dark chambers of population control history in Asia The following excerpt, reproduced from Foreign Policy , reveals just the tip of the criminal icebrg:  In India, meanwhile, advisors from the World Bank and other organizations pressured the government into adopting a paradigm, as public-health activist Sabu George put it to me, "where the entire problem was population." The Rockefeller Foundation granted $1.5 million to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the country's top medical school, and the Ford Foundation chipped in $63,563 for "research into reproductive biology." And sometime in the mid-1960s, Population Council medical director Sheldon Segal showed the institute's doctors how to test human cells for the sex chromatins that indicated a person was female -- a method that was the precursor to fetal sex determination. Soon after, the technology matured, and second-trimester fetal sex d...