‘Coercive Care’ investigation reveals how doctors have pressured sickle cell patients into unwanted sterilizations
Dear Readers,
I want to bring your attention to a deeply disturbing but vital series of stories STAT is publishing beginning today. It reveals that an injustice often relegated to the distant past persists to this day: For decades, physicians have steered sickle cell patients toward sterilization, their stories echoing the ugly history of eugenics in America.
