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army1987 comments on How to Avoid the Conflict Between Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 December 2012 01:00:52AM 4 points [-]

When it's a bunch of doctors in Indian Health Service hospitals on reservations all over the country doing it to Native American women,

Please, tell me you're making this up.

[googles for native american sterilization]

OMG OMG OMG OMG...

Comment author: [deleted] 08 December 2012 02:18:11AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, it's worse than that -- many consent forms were often filed under duress (claims that benefits would be withheld, or handing the papers to a patient in under emergency conditions and having them sign, sometimes while under anaesthesia, claiming they were papers for other, often lifesaving procedures.