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		<title>Elaine Riddick Trent</title>
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At the age of 19 Elaine Riddick Trent learned that she would never be able to conceive and bear a child of her own. Her sterility was the result of a tubal ligation performed on her without her knowledge or consent 5 years earlier.  Trent&#8217;s sterilization was performed on March 1, 1968 during her stay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com&blog=2021324&post=56&subd=mississippiappendectomy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 excerpts of survivor testimonies from Madrigal v. Quilligan case</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following testimonies were featured in Jessica Enoch&#8217;s (2005) study of the Madrigal v. Quilligan case. Jovita Rivera, Helena Orozco, and Maria Hurtado were 3 of the 10 plaintiffs in the Madrigal v. Quilligan case who were sterilized at the USC-LA Medical Center between 1971 and 1974 without their informed consent :
 
Jovita Rivera:
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		<description><![CDATA[Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was the youngest of 20 children in her family. She began picking cotton at age 6 and left school at age 13 in order to help support her family full-time. In 1942, Ms. Hamer married, settled in Sunflower County, Mississippi as a sharecropper (her husband drove a tractor, and she worked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com&blog=2021324&post=13&subd=mississippiappendectomy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forced Sterilization of Romani women in Slovakia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Center for Reproductive Rights:
 Romani women in Slovakia continue to be subject to grave violations of their human rights, particularly their reproductive rights, even though a communist-era law offering monetary incentives for sterilization has been rescinded. A three-month fact-finding in late 2002 by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Poradna pre obcianske a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com&blog=2021324&post=50&subd=mississippiappendectomy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forced Sterilization in China &#8211; One-Child Policy and Sterilization Abuse</title>
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New York Times article: &#8220;Victims of China&#8217;s Birth-Control Policy Are Entitled to Asylum, a U.S. Judge Says&#8221; by Robert Pear  (January 21, 1994)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EFD71530F932A15752C0A962958260




CNN World article: &#8220;Chinese witness: Beijing forces sterilizations, abortions&#8221; (June 11, 1998)

 http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9806/11/china.abortion/




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