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Originally posted by MereMere21
I know they have been sterilizing women in China for decades to help curb their population issue. I wonder why human rights activists haven't been more prevelent there? or maybe they are and the news here is too enfatuated with Kobi Bryant to cover it.
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I think it's one of those "American politics" things. We whine about the injustices of human rights violations but only when they're in countries that aren't in a position to help us financially. There are probably human rights activists involved in this but there's only so much they can do, especially when the media isn't covering it.
A lot of the sterilization both in Puerto Rico and here in America took place with women who couldn't speak English. Doctors would hand them forms to sign while they were in LABOR, telling them that the forms had something to do with their current pregnancy and that they had to sign them or else leave the hospital. They couldn't read the papers because they didn't know English, so they just signed them. In reality they had just signed a statement saying that it was okay to sterilize them, and the procedure generally took place immediately after their child was born.
There are some really sick stories and the numbers of sterilized women are higher than you'd expect, although I can't remember the percentage offhand.
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