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Remembering Dolores Madrigal, the lead plaintiff in a landmark sterilization case

In the 1970s, doctors sterilized Dolores Madrigal without her knowledge. She became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit by Mexican-American women who said they were coerced into having their tubes tied.
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