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uhnope

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1. this has happened everywhere at some time or another

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Feb 26, 2015, 07:31 PM

Feb 2015

it's one of the most underreported human rights issues on the planet.

The USSR and Soviet Bloc sterilized Roma (Gypsies) and then many doctors continued even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, for example.

But it's happened in the west, too

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Mexican women with mental health problems pressured into sterilisation [View all] Judi Lynn Feb 2015 OP

this has happened everywhere at some time or another uhnope Feb 2015 #1

Do they sterilize Mexican men with mental health problems? appalachiablue Feb 2015 #2