CRR Annual Report 2009 - Center for Reproductive Rights

Seeking
Justice
for the
Marginalized
Francisca* and her husband, a young couple
living in southern Chile, were overjoyed to
find out she was pregnant. But just a few
weeks later, doctors told Francisca that
she was HIV-positive. In late 2002, she
delivered a healthy baby boy via C-section
and looked forward to having more children.
Unbeknownst to her, however, doctors used
the surgery to also sterilize her. Not only had
Francisca not consented to the sterilization,
she had not even been asked about it.
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