Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, is a government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific group of...

Compulsory sterilization in Canada has a documented history in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. It is still ongoing as in...

permanent sterilization; tying elected abortion to compulsory sterilization (cannot receive a sought out abortion without "consenting" to sterilization); using...

river. In September 1976, Sanjay Gandhi initiated a widespread compulsory sterilization program to limit population growth. The exact extent of Sanjay...

women were misled into believing that the sterilization procedure was reversible. In other cases, sterilization was performed without the adequate understanding...

allowing forced sterilization, and in most other states it is not clear whether it is legal or not. Seventeen states allow the sterilization of children under...

Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden were sterilisations which were carried out in Sweden, without a valid consent of the subject, during the years 1906–1975...

unable to reproduce. Sterilization methods include both surgical and non-surgical options for both males and females. Sterilization procedures are intended...

Forced sterilization in Peru was part of a larger effort variably described as the ethnic cleansing or genocide of indigenous peoples of Peru that occurred...

that forced sterilization of ethnic Uyghurs persisted since the 1980s. Since 2014, there was an indication for a sharp increase in sterilization of Uyghur...

Sterilization law is the area of law, within reproductive rights, that gives a person the right to choose or refuse reproductive sterilization and governs...

through sterilization were included in Plan Verde, a covert military operation created to establish a neoliberal military junta. Compulsory sterilization, which...

Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection...

choice. Forced sterilization was permissible by multiple states throughout various periods in the 20th century. Issues of state sterilization have persisted...

the legal status of compulsory sterilization. The result of Gosney and Popenoe's research was a co-authored volume, Sterilization for Human Betterment:...

active individuals influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation. Harry Hamilton Laughlin was born March 11, 1880, in...

Roma woman who was the victim of forced sterilization in a state hospital in Slovakia in 2000. Forced sterilization in the United States was practiced starting...

communities. Compulsory sterilization is the unwanted and/or nonconsensual sterilization of both men and women. The main form of sterilization for women...

States Supreme Court ruling that held that laws permitting the compulsory sterilization of criminals are unconstitutional as it violates a person's rights...

method of sterilization which would be suitable for sterilizing millions of people with a minimum of time and effort. The targets for sterilization included...

advocacy for sterilization). Sharp never renounced his support of eugenic sterilization. More than 2,000 Indiana residents had been sterilized by 1974 before...

Maternal deaths Perinatal mortality Stillbirths Abortion Mother-to-child transmission Sterilization Compulsory sterilization Breastfeeding and mental health...

chemical castration for a reduction in sentence is an example of compulsory sterilization as it can leave a subject sterile if they are required to continue...

Court case Buck v. Bell, after having been ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded" by her foster parents after...

1941 in the United States. The book advocated genocide through the sterilization of all Germans and the territorial dismemberment of Germany, believing...

with a eugenics programme that aimed for racial hygiene through compulsory sterilization of sick individuals and extermination of Untermenschen ("subhumans"):...

Racial Hygiene in 1905. The movement advocated selective breeding, compulsory sterilization, and a close alignment of public health with eugenics. Racial hygiene...

parental or spousal consent. compulsory sterilization § By country EngenderHealth (2002). "4". Contraceptive sterilization : global issues and trends....

had subjected more people to forceful sterilization than all other U.S. states combined. The forced sterilization program engineered by the Nazis was partly...

combined with a eugenics program that aimed for "racial hygiene" by compulsory sterilization and extermination of those who they saw as Untermenschen ("sub-humans")...