'I always wanted a girl': scandal of Czech Roma forcibly sterilised

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Elena Gorolova was 21 when she gave birth to her second son. The doctor told me I would need to deliver via a C-section otherwise I would be risking the health of me and the baby."

In the delivery room, a nurse gave her papers to sign. I was in so much pain ... I was in no state to think about what I was signing," says the social workerfrom the Czech Republic. She had unknowingly signed an agreement to be sterilised.