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Topic: sterilization

A doctor talks with her patient about her concerns. (Getty Images/ljubaphoto)

Tubal sterilization not very "permanent"

Nicole Karlis
Pro-life activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as they wait for the court to hand down its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Monday morning, June 13, 2022 (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Sterilization showers" proliferating

Aaron Bolton, Ellis Juhlin - KFF Health News
Preparatory to their filing a $500,000 damage suit against the girl's mother, Mrs. Maryon Hewitt McCarter, two California physicians, and a psychiatrist, Miss Ann Cooper Hewitt, (right), and her attorney, Russel P. Tyler, are shown making final depositions. The charges claimed her mother and the doctors conspired to perform an operation rendering her sterile. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

The forced sterilization of an heiress

Audrey Clare Farley
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Eugenics at work in Tennessee

Nick Lingerfelt - Salon Young Americans
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Modern day eugenics

Kali Holloway - Alternet
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Jenny Kutner
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Jenny Kutner
Indian women who underwent sterilization surgeries receive treatment at the CIMS hospital in Bilaspur, Nov. 11, 2014. (AP)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Our shocking eugenics history

Belle Boggs
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Katie McDonough
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