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Forced Sterilization in Puerto Rico not ended until 1970's.

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Heraclitus 8 May 30
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Not just Puerto Rico. You do know Some states still have forced sterilization laws in effect, such as Washington state.
Even compensation payments for the victims of forced sterilization under the authorization of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina was not authorized until 2013 In North Carolina to provide justice and compensate 7,600 victims who were forcibly sterilized by the State of North Carolina from 1929 to 1974 in the state's eugenics program;
$10 million set aside to be awarded beginning in June 2015

In 2003, Douglas Diekema wrote in Volume 9 of the journal Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews that "involuntary sterilization ought not be performed on mentally retarded persons who retain the capacity for reproductive decision-making, the ability to raise a child, or the capacity to provide valid consent to marriage." those who do not retain the capacity can be sterilised on the say so of their family or the advice of their doctor.

The American Journal of Bioethics published an article, in 2010, that concluded the interventions including hysterectomy and surgical removal of the breast buds from mentally and physically disabled children was permissible

In June 2014, The inability to pay for the cost of raising children was given as a reason courts to have ordered coercive or compulsory sterilization.a Virginia judge ruled that a man on probation for child endangerment must be able to pay for his seven children before having more children; the man agreed to get a vasectomy as part of his plea deal.
In 2013, an Ohio judge ordered a man owing nearly $100,000 in unpaid child support to "make all reasonable efforts to avoid impregnating a woman" (a vasectomy) this amounts to "constructive sterilization" for men unlikely to make child support payments.

148 female prisoners in two California institutions were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 in a supposedly voluntary program, but it was determined that the prisoners did not give consent to the procedures leading to the September 2014, California enacted Bill SB 1135 that bans sterilization in correctional facilities, unless the procedure shall be required in a medical emergency to preserve inmate's life.

Discussions have yet to begin regarding forced sterilization in other states.

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