NEW DELHI (AP) The women were poor, from villages in central India where the promise of a few dollars is all but impossible to resist. Many had babies so young they were still nursing at their mothers' breasts.

The deaths of 12 women after they underwent sterilization procedures this week have raised serious ethical questions about India's drive to curb a booming population by paying women who get sterilized. The deaths also exposed the dangerous lack of oversight in India's $74 billion health care industry.

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Sterilization deaths show India's health care ills