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Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, refers to any government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific group of people. Sterilization removes a person's capacity to reproduce, and is usually done by surgical or chemical means.
While sterilization laws have been repealed and new ones have been put in place to protect the bodily autonomy of people, there is still a major problem when it comes to the forced sterilization of women in the U.S. prison system. In California, it was found that over 100 women were unlawfully sterilized between the years of 2006 and 2010. [13]
Sterilization law is the area of law, that concerns a person's purported right to choose or refuse reproductive sterilization and when a given government may limit it. In the United States, it is typically understood to touch on federal and state constitutional law , statutory law , administrative law , and common law .
Survivors of nonconsensual sterilization can apply for California government compensation by the end of the year. Here's how to apply and some roadblocks you might face. Compensation for forced ...
Rates of sterilization procedures soared nationwide after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and its constitutional protection of abortion rights in June 2022. New research now finds ...
Latino families of women who were forcibly sterilized under a former California law talk of the pain to families as the state moves to compensate victims.
In 1909 a eugenics law was passed in California allowing for state institutions to sterilize those deemed "unfit" or "feeble-minded". [12] The Asexualization Act authorized the involuntary sterilization of certain groups of people, including inmates of state hospitals, certain institutionalized people, life-sentenced prisoners, repeat offenders of certain sexual offenses, or simply repeat ...
Doctors performed sterilizations without consent on more than 20,000 Californians between 1909 and 1979.