Mom, 20, giving birth to third set of twins

[Drolefille]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6670217.stm

"When I was 13, I was raped. I had my beautiful son and when they cut me open, I had a caesarean, they sterilised me at the same time," she said.

"I didn't know anything about it until I was 19. I got married and tried to have a child. The doctor told me I had been butchered."

It sounds like a story from the dark ages but this happened less than 40 years ago. And it happened in the US.

Policies were drawn up in over 30 states in the US to sterilise women, men and children who were considered to be physically, mentally or morally 'defective'.

But in reality the majority of those who were sterilised were simply poor women.