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voluntary sterilization

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voluntary sterilization
Gynecology The surgical deletion of reproductive capacity, by personal choice. See Sterilization. Cf Involuntary sterilization.


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The next occasion for comment came in December 1962, when Judge Ken Langdon of Oakville publicly recommended that abortion be made legal for unmarried girls under 16 and for victims of rape and, also, that voluntary sterilization be made available for parents of large families.
Chisholm had a long term belief that fertility trends had to be dramatically curtailed, and joined the Association for Voluntary Sterilization in advocating heightened use of sterilization, with a hazy borderline between choice and forcible intervention, especially regarding marginalized communities.
11) One woman, pregnant with her ninth child, could not get the voluntary sterilization even though she had already signed her consent form.
 
 
 
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