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EDGEWOOD, N.M. (AP) — In the 1970s, the U.S. agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent, depriving them of the ...
Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age ...