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		<title>Fannie Lou Hamer</title>
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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 [...]]]></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their reproductive rights, even though a communist-era law offering monetary incentives for sterilization has been rescinded.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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forced Sterilization in China - 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, 199  

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




Hearing Transcript: &#8220;Forced Abortion and Sterilization in China: The View From the Inside&#8221;  Hearing before the Subcommittee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>physician: Curtis Wood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curtis Wood was one of many physicians in the early 1970s who believed that the physicians duty was to use sterilization as a means to rid the world of &#8220;undesirable&#8221; elements. In an article he wrote in 1973, &#8220;The Changing Trends in Voluntary Sterilization&#8221; Wood writes:
&#8220;As physicians we have obligations to our individual patients, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dolores Madrigal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 12, 1973, Dolores Madrigal arrived at the University of Southern California-Los Angeles (USC-LA) Medical Center to give birth to her second child. She would later report that while she was in labor and under medication, staff members from the medical center coerced her into giving consent to an operation. These doctors explained that [...]]]></description>
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