Quinacrine Non-surgical Method of Voluntary Female Sterilization: “…already used by over 100,000 women with no reported deaths or life
threatening complications.”

“Delivered by a trained midwife or MD in any office, using a modified
IUD inserter, a 252 mg dose of 7 tiny quinacrine pellets is placed at the
fundus of the uterus. The pellets dissolve quickly. The fluid causes
inflammation and then scarring at the opening of the fallopian tubes.
This prevents further births. With two treatments a month apart, studies
show low failure rates with no evidence of cancer. As the drug is
off-patent, the cost of the pellets and inserter is under $5. Surgical
sterilizations often cost well over $2000 in the United States.” However, the method has been banned in Vietnam, India and China after unfavorable publicity, including suggestions of carcinogenicity, its proponents call a “vast disinformation
campaign by uninformed feminists and traditional family planning
opponents (which) has now been fully discredited by sound scientific
investigations and a long favorable experience with QS in Chile.” I googled (I’ve started seeing this as a verb recently; what do you think?) on “quinacrine AND sterilization” and the words that leap out at me from the results include “controversial” (over and over again), “dangerous”, “painful”, “forced sterilization” and “guinea pigs”. [via Caught in Between]