Ethel was sterilized at Beebe Hospital on Nov. 15, 1932. For most women, sterilization meant undergoing abdominal surgery in order to remove one or both of their fallopian tubes, said Schoen, the ...

Andrea Garcia, 19, from a Mexican family, was sterilized after being admitted into Pacific Colony, a psychiatric institution, for what evaluators called "truancy" and a low IQ test score.

Ethel was sterilized at Beebe Hospital on Nov. 15, 1932. For most women, sterilization meant undergoing abdominal surgery in order to remove one or both of their fallopian tubes, said Schoen, the ...

A judge ruled Monday that three HIV-positive women in Namibia were sterilized without their informed consent, their lawyer said. But the high court judge said the women did not provide enough ...

Namibian women were sterilized without consent, judge rules Nkepile Mabuse, CNN 3 min read Updated 12:18 PM EDT, Tue July 31, 2012 ...

Doctors there later told her she had been sterilized. A facility believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, in Artux, north of Kashgar in China’s ...

When ‘sterilized surgical catgut’ is employed, the patient may be regarded as adequately safeguarded from tetanus infection, but in many hospitals ‘raw’ unsterile catgut is bought for use.

A new documentary on PBS — "No Más Bebés," or "No More Babies" — tells the story of a nearly forgotten legal crusade on behalf of Latinas allegedly sterilized without proper consent in Los ...

They sterilized me, then now they say 'oh, we don't know anything,'" he said, speaking to Reuters in his narrow, dark, Tokyo apartment. "An apology is not enough.

Rachel Diamond looks like most of the moms at the Park Slope café where we meet. Except the 31-year-old isn’t a mom. And she never will be.

The welfare ministry has issued a reminder to local authorities across Japan that it is illegal for service providers to tell people with disabilities they must get sterilized to use their services.