India changed its policy of sterilizing people to control population in 1996, primarily because the policy __________.

The policy was changed primarily because compulsory or coercive sterilization violated people’s rights to bodily autonomy and informed consent. It was not changed because the population had decreased too rapidly; the central concern was the harm and coercion involved. The best answer is B, “violated human rights.”

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