FORCED STERILIZATION

South African doctors sterilised women without consent

Michael Cook | 29 February 2020 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, informed consent, south africa

Many women did not give informed consent

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Peru continues to debate legacy of forced sterilizations

Shena Cavallo | 24 September 2016 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, peru, population control

Former president Fujimori will not be prosecuted over alleged campaigns

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Diversity, disability and eugenics: an interview with Rob Sparrow

Xavier Symons | 11 August 2016 | Comments

tags: abortion, disability, eugenics, forced sterilization, genetic screening, interviews

In a provocative interview with BioEdge, influential bioethicist and philosopher Rob Sparrow discusses various current controversies in bioethics.

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‘No Mas Bebes’

Xavier Symons | 30 January 2016 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, informed consent, sterilization, US

A new documentary tells the story of several mexican women who in the late 1960s and early 1970s were sterilized in US hospitals.

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Fujimori cleared of allegations of forced sterilization campaign

Xavier Symons | 23 February 2014 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, peru, population control, sterilization

Peruvian state prosecutors have cleared Fujimori of crimes against humanity over a sterilization campaign in the 1990s.

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UK Down syndrome woman protected from sterilization

Xavier Symons | 22 February 2013 | Comments

tags: down syndrome, forced sterilization, sterilization, uk

There is a growing push for greater rights for Down syndrome people – in particular that they be fully protected from forced sterilisation. A landmark ruling by a UK court may have brought this goal one step closer.

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Swedish transsexuals win right not to be sterilized

Michael Cook | 01 February 2013 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, gender reassignment, sterilization, sweden

Transsexuals have won a major victory in Sweden. A court has ruled unconstitutional a law which required them to be sterilized before they could be legally recognised as another gender. The Stockholm administrative court of appeal ruled that the practice also violated the European Convention on Human Rights.

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North Carolina may compensate victims of eugenics program

Michael Cook | 03 February 2012 | Comments

tags: eugenics, forced sterilization, north carolina, sterilization

The North Carolina legislature has recommended that surviving victims of the State’s forced sterilization program be paid US$50,000 each.

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Massachusetts judge ordered forced abortion and sterilization of mentally ill woman

Michael Cook | 21 January 2012 | Comments

tags: abortion, forced sterilization, informed consent, massachusetts, sterilization

It is difficult to imagine a case better scripted for a discussion of informed consent than Mary Moe’s Massachusetts abortion.

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Sterilise the “unfit”, British sociologist says

Jared Yee | 11 September 2010 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, licence to parent, parenting

For “child protection”

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Rwanda accused of considering compulsory sterilisation

Michael Cook | 11 July 2009 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, population control, rwanda

Hotly denied by government