Tag: forced sterilization

California Trying to Find, Compensate Sterilization Victims

SACRAMENTO—About 600 people alive today can’t have children because California’s government sterilized them either against their will or without their knowledge, and now the state is trying to find them so it can pay them at least $15,000 each in reparations. But after a year of searching, the state has approved just 51 people for…


Canadian Senators Call for Compensation for Survivors of Forced Sterilization

Canadian senators of the human rights committee have released a report on incidents of forced or coerced sterilization in Canada while recommending the government apologize and compensate the victims. “For most people, the idea of being forcibly stripped of your ability to conceive is unthinkable, in fact, horrifying. But this disturbing practice has a long…