Victory in California! Last Tuesday, the state legislature passed a bill banning the forced sterilizations of inmates in California prisons. The bill, which was passed unanimously in the state Senate, was a legislative response to a 2013 story from the Center for Investigative Reporting which found that prison physicians performed tubal ligations on at least 148 women inmates between 2006 and 2010 without authorization. The bill will prohibit sterilizations except when a mother’s life is in danger or in order to treat a medical condition where no other less serious options exist. “It’s clear that we need to do more to make sure that forced or coerced sterilizations never again occur in our jails and prisons,” said state Senator Hannah Beth-Jackson, author of the bill. “Pressuring a vulnerable population into making permanent reproductive choices without informed consent violates our most basic human rights.”
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:55:03 +0000
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