Forced Sterilization

Chen Guangcheng's Escape: What China Is Trying to Hide From You

Chai Ling | Posted 04.30.2012

Chai Ling

With the eyes of the world watching, China must allow Chen and his family to live in freedom. Critically, the nation must also heed widespread calls to repeal the One-Child Policy, whose victims are largely voiceless.

"Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough"

Bennett L. Gershman | Posted 03.26.2012

Bennett L. Gershman

Is there any connection between the eugenics movement and the anti-choice movement? Forcing a woman to give birth -- which the anti-choice movement effectively requires -- really is not that different conceptually from preventing her from giving birth.

WATCH: Local Activists Plead With Sweden To Amend Transgender Sterilization Law

Posted 01.21.2012

International human rights activists have decried Sweden's decision not to update a "barbaric" law that requires all transgender people to become ster...

Making Things Right, Many Years Later

Michael Waterstone | Posted 03.14.2012

Michael Waterstone

Today, the idea of the state medically taking away someone's right to procreate against their will seems impossible. But from the 1930s to the late 1970s, North Carolina used eugenics to justify mandatory sterilization of people with mental disabilities, criminals and other undesirables.

The Other Side of Reproductive Justice: How Sterilization and Other Forms of Coercion Are Used Against "Unworthy" Parents

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 01.23.2012

Marianne Mollmann

Coerced sterilization and castration are in many ways no different from other limitations on individual reproductive choice: they violate a number of fundamental rights, including the rights to health, privacy, and physical integrity.

GlobalPost Reports: The Terror Of Forced Sterilization For Transgender People

Posted 01.02.2012

By Ann Tornkvist STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Aleksa Lundberg remembers being four years old and standing by the kindergarten's wading pool. The tea...

Peru: Rights Groups Claim 200,000 Women Forcibly Sterilized, Investigation Reopened

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 12.28.2011

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian prosecutors have reopened an investigation into evidence that thousands of women were forcibly sterilized during the 1990-...

N.C. Tries To Make Amends For Sterilizations

AP | By RENEE ELDER and TOM BREEN | Posted 08.19.2011

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Nearly 35 years after ending the country's most active post-war sterilization program, North Carolina is the only state trying to mak...

HIV-Positive Chilean Mothers Claim To Be Forcibly Sterilized, Abused In Hospitals (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

As nations around the world commemorate World AIDS Day, a group of HIV-positive women in Chile has come forward with more sobering news, claiming they...

Namibian Women With HIV Sue Government Over Forced Sterilization

AP | PATIENCE NYANGOVE | Posted 05.25.2011

WINDHOEK, Namibia — Supporters of three HIV-positive women in Namibia who say they were sterilized without their consent held protests to suppor...

Ashley Judd: Please, Population Control is Not the Answer for Congo

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Georgianne Nienaber

Congo's economy is not undermined by "unregulated fertility" rates. Civil society has been destroyed by decades of war and over a hundred years of exploitation of Congo's wealth by international interests.

Namibia Women Face Forced Sterilization

Priti Patel | Posted 05.25.2011

Priti Patel

Advocacy groups in Namibia have documented the stories of dozens of HIV-positive women who were sterilized against their will in public hospitals.