STAT June 6, 2024
Federal officials, medical organizations, and reproductive health advocacy groups have expressed outrage in response to STAT’s recent investigation revealing that women with sickle cell disease have felt pressured into sterilizations as recently as 2017 and 2022.
Some said they knew of other contemporary instances of tubal ligations with questionable consent — in people with severe disabilities, for instance, or situations in which patients didn’t understand that the procedure should be considered permanent — and said STAT’s reporting uncovered a new dimension of this troubling pattern. For many, it also showed the need for improvements in access to care, reproductive counseling, education for physicians and patients, and federal sterilization policy.
“For far too long, racial inequities and underrepresentation in our health...
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