California Passes Bill Banning Forced Sterilizations of Inmates

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Last Tuesday the California legislature passed a bill banning the forced sterilizations of inmates in California prisons, KQED reported. The California state Senate passed SB 1135, authored by State Sen. Hannah Beth-Jackson of Santa Barbara, in a unanimous vote. The bill was a legislative response to a 2013 story from the Center for Investigative Reporting which found that prison physicians performed tubal ligations on at least 148 women inmates between 2006 and 2010 without state authorization.

SB 1135 will prohibit sterilizations except when a mother’s life is in danger or in order to treat a medical condition where no other less serious options exist.

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