Surgery instruments. Pixabay: Public Domain.
Who should decide over a woman’s body? Who should decide whether a woman ought to be permanently sterilized? Should the woman be entitled to make that decision? Or should the judiciary be the one to make that decision for her? Should her opinion count? Should she be heard?
These might sound outdated questions, issues from the distant past when U.S. federal agencies sterilized Native-American women without their consent in California in the 1900’s, or when women were forcibly sterilized during the Nazi regime, or more recently, during Fujimori’s dictatorship in Peru when indigenous and peasant women were compulsorily sterilized.
