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...form of family planning and the preferred method among Latina women. The reasons women choose sterilization are varied and personal; research indicates that women of color choose sterilization at much higher rates than White women do.
This popularity belies the complicated history of sterilization among women of color, however, and especially among Latinas. In the 1960s and 1970s, a significant number of women in the U.S. (primarily low-income women, women of color, women receiving care from Indian Health Services and institutionalized women) were sterilized under coercive conditions. They were approached during childbirth by doctors who withheld information about the surgery's permanence and/or falsely advised that sterilization was necessary. Some were threatened...
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