Women under 30 are sharing information about permanent contraception – including lists of doctors who won’t give them a hard time about getting the procedure Madison Clark did not celebrate when ...

Last week, 13 women died in India after undergoing sterilization procedures in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, possibly because of tainted pills administered after the surgery. This tragedy ...

States like California, North Carolina and Virginia often take the focus due to the sheer number of procedures, even though Delaware’s rate of sterilization regularly outpaced them. Delaware has never ...

The Liberal government does not plan to change the Criminal Code to explicitly outlaw coerced sterilization — rejecting a resolution passed by First Nations chiefs on Thursday. Heather Bear, the ...

In 1936, Ann Cooper Hewitt filed a lawsuit against her mother — and with good reason. At the age of 20, her mother Ann had sterilized her against her will. Having succeeded in classifying her as ...

Not too long ago, a vast network of Massachusetts state schools and hospitals locked away tens of thousands of intellectually, developmentally and mentally disabled people. This is a topic I’ve ...