coercive sterilization

"La Operación:" How the Church Contributed to Sterilization Abuse in Puerto Rico

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by Jill Morrison, National Women's Law Center

April 4, 2011 - 2:21pm (Print)

The Catholic Church inadvertently pushed women toward sterilization rather than risk committing a continuous offense against the Church.

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Demanding the Right to Reproduce: Voluntary and Forced Sterilization in America

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by Mandy Van Deven, RH Reality Check

August 5, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

Rebecca Kluchin's new book, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980, explores a thirty year period of US history in which eugenic and neo-eugenic ideas were used to justify forced, coerced, and freely chosen sterilization.
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