Coercive Sterilization in the Czech Republic

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is gone. Apparently he was right, apparently he could fix it, and apparently he did. Faith led down a safe path. Now imagine a scenario where you submit to your doctor willfully, and nothing you imagined or nothing he promised you would happen, happened. Or even scarier for that matter, you leave a hospital without any knowledge or inclination of a problem, and then a year later you mysteriously are completely unable to get pregnant. This is the terrifying experience hundreds of Romani women have been enduring in the Czech Republic. Since the 1950s Czech doctors have been used as a weapon of extinguishing the Romani, in preventing reproduction for these women. Romanies, also called Roma, represent an ethnic group located mostly in Europe whose origins are of the Indian subcontinent. They are visibly different from the white European majority that populates the Czech Republic, and have faced intense persecution despite living in that region for over 1000 years.? At one point in ...

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attained or they are never consulted at all; number two they consent to sterilization based on the doctor's false recommendation and sign forms with purposefully indecipherable terminology the doctor uses; number three they consent to procedures while intentionally stressed (in advanced stages of labor during C-sections for example); or number four they are forced into consenting against their wishes. No matter the means these women suffer the permanent consequences the discriminative Czech always intended for them. To not reproduce. Parties responsible for this heinous crime usually belong to two different groups: doctors who strongly dislike and are prejudice against the Roma people, ...

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