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Japanese Woman Sues Gov’t for Forced Sterilization

HeadlineJan 31, 2018

In Japan, a woman has filed a landmark lawsuit suing the Japanese government for sterilizing her without her consent because of a mental disability when she was 15 years old. She’s one of an estimated 16,000 people in Japan who were forcibly sterilized under Japan’s eugenics law, which was in force from 1948 until 1996.

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