The new law specifically addresses people with medical conditions who want to get sterilized for their reproductive health.

About 20,000 people in California were sterilized, mostly between 1920 and 1960, although the state law was in effect from 1909 to 1979. Most were forced or coerced.

California was among the first states to begin forcibly sterilizing people in the early 1900s, joined by Indiana and Washington. More than two dozen others passed similar laws in the years that ...

Sweden sterilized 63,000 people under a 1935-1975 program, almost all women, in the name of racial purity. Thirty-two U.S. states embraced eugenics at some point, ...

When ‘sterilized surgical catgut’ is employed, the patient may be regarded as adequately safeguarded from tetanus infection, but in many hospitals ‘raw’ unsterile catgut is bought for use.

Morningstar Mercredi, an Alberta-based Indigenous author, was sterilized as a 14-year-old, but didn’t find out until decades later when she sought help after being unable to conceive.

Ecologists release thousands of sterilized mosquitoes to control population 02:11. All of the late-season rain falling on Southern California has created the possibility of a bad mosquito season ...

Whenever you talk about neti pots, you include a warning about always using distilled water. It seemed to me like an overreaction, but now there’s news that someone died from not doing that. Why would ...

My research shows that from 1996 to 2001, officials sterilized 272,028 people. The majority were poor, rural, Indigenous, Quechua-speaking women. Many women suffered medical complications and some ...

On May 23 Sri Lankan newspaper Divaina, known for its nationalist stance, published a front page article alleging a Muslim doctor had secretly sterilized 4,000 Sinhala Buddhist women after ...