Chile government apologizes to woman for forced sterilization
by John Bartlett in Santiago from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZPD8)
Doctors performed procedure in 2002 without consent while Francisca was under anesthesia because she was HIV positive
The Chilean state has apologised to a woman who was forcibly sterilised by doctors because she was HIV positive.
The woman, known only as Francisca and then 20, was diagnosed with HIV in March 2002 while pregnant with her first child. But while she was under anaesthesia during a Caesarean section, doctors at a public hospital performed a surgical sterilisation on the grounds that it would be irresponsible for an HIV-positive woman to have more children. When Francisca woke up after the operation, she was informed by a nurse that she had been sterilised without her consent.
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