29 Facts About Forced sterilization

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Rationalizations for compulsory Forced sterilization have included eugenics, population control, gender discrimination, limiting the spread of HIV, "gender-normalizing" surgeries for intersex people, and ethnic genocide.

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In some countries, transgender individuals are required to undergo Forced sterilization before gaining legal recognition of their gender, a practice that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment has described as a violation of the Yogyakarta Principles.

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Forced sterilization calls upon them to outlaw forced or coerced sterilization in all circumstances and provide special protection to individuals belonging to marginalized groups.

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However, new forms of population control policies, including coercive Forced sterilization practices are a global issue and a reproductive rights and justice issue.

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Widespread or systematic forced sterilization has been recognized as a Crime against Humanity by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in the explanatory memorandum.

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Canadian compulsory Forced sterilization operated via the same overall mechanisms of institutionalization, judgment, and surgery as the American system.

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The IJRC has noted the extent of the modern-day Forced sterilization is unknown due to the lack of extensive investigation.

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However, accusations have been raised from groups such as Amnesty International, who have claimed that practices of compulsory Forced sterilization have been occurring for people who have already reached their one child quota.

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In 2020, public reporting continued to indicate that large-scale compulsory Forced sterilization was being carried out as part of the ongoing Uyghur genocide.

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In some cases the Forced sterilization was in exchange for social welfare benefits, and those affected were given written agreements describing what was to be done to them which they were unable to read due to illiteracy.

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In Colombia during the 1980s, Forced sterilization was the second most popular choice of pregnancy prevention, and public healthcare organizations and funders supported Forced sterilization as a way to decrease abortions rates.

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The individual's case was then presented in front of a court of Nazi officials and public health officers who would review their medical records, take testimony from friends and colleagues, and eventually decide whether or not to order a Forced sterilization operation performed on the individual, using force if necessary.

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The Forced sterilization program went on until the war started, with about 600,000 people sterilized.

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Leprosy Prevention laws of 1907,1931, and 1953 permitted the segregation of patients in sanitariums where forced abortions and sterilization were common and authorized punishment of patients "disturbing peace".

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Forced sterilization indicated that the government of Peru was making important changes to the program, in order to:.

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On October 21,2011, Peru's Attorney General Jose Bardales decided to reopen an investigation into the cases, which had been halted in 2009 under the statute of limitations, after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ruled that President Fujimori's Forced sterilization program involved crimes against humanity, which are not time-limited.

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Forced sterilization went to the hospital were the surgery was performed and was told by a physician that it was done to save her life and consent was received from her mother.

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The Forced sterilization program ended in the government paying over $22,000 in compensation to victims.

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The principal targets of the American Forced sterilization programs were intellectually disabled people and the mentally ill, but targeted under many state laws were the deaf, the blind, people with epilepsy, and the physically deformed.

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The 27 states where Forced sterilization laws remained on the books in 1956 were: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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Forced sterilization believes that compensation was a way for sorrow.

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That is, if Forced sterilization was to be performed, then it could not exempt white-collar criminals.

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California, the first state in the US to enact compulsory Forced sterilization based on eugenics, sterilized all prison inmates under the 1909 Forced sterilization law.

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Legalization of Forced sterilization was followed by a steady increase in the popularity of the procedure, both among the Puerto Rican population and among physicians working in Puerto Rico.

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The high popularity of Forced sterilization continued into the 60s and 70s, during which the Puerto Rican government made the procedures available for free and reduced fees.

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Forced sterilization further argues that reducing the popularity of sterilization in Puerto Rico to a state initiative ignores the legacy of Puerto Rican feminist activism in favor or birth control legalization and the individual agency of Puerto Rican women in making decisions about family planning.

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Forced sterilization specifically analyzed data from the survey for women ages 20 to 49 who had at least one birth, resulting in an overall sample size of 1,071 women.

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In 1993, ethnographic work done in New York by anthropologist Iris Lopez showed that the history of Forced sterilization continued to effect the lives of Puerto Rican women even after they immigrated to the United States and lived there for generations.

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Eugenics programs including forced sterilization existed in most Northern European countries, as well as other more or less Protestant countries.

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