It’s no secret that the current health minister is strongly in favour of smaller families. It is also obvious that promotion of family planning has a vigour that was absent ten years ago. However, are targets leading to coerced sterilisation in some states? Is the focus on long-term methods leading to neglect of other family planning interventions. This is an argument that dates all the way back to the Emergency but has been revived by a pressure group led by an ex-Secretary, Health, according to an article in The Hindu