Is providing medical treatment without informed consent unethical? Absolutely. But the outcome between regular administration of a drug that wears off in less

Is providing medical treatment without informed consent unethical? Absolutely. But the outcome between regular administration of a drug that wears off in less than 10 months and surgical interventions that are mostly irreversible permanently sterilizing someone are very different things and not "splitting hairs." As well, you are deliberately ignoring what the article points to as other factors which might be in part playing into differences in birthrates: > A 2016 study argued that the rapid decline in fertility rates among Ethiopian Israeli women following their migration to Israel was not the result of the administration of Depo-Provera, but rather the product of urbanization, improved educational opportunities, a later age of marriage and commencement of childbirth, and an earlier age of cessation of childbearing[1]. Was there a decline in birthrates? Yes. Was that in part because of an unethical dosing off a drug without informed consent or under coercive conditions? Probably. Is that still a world of difference from permanently sterilizing a population? Yes, very much so.