In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and ...
In 1972, Jean Whitehorse went to an the Indian Health Service hospital in Gallup, N.M. treat a ruptured appendix. The 22-year-old mother left her treatment as the victim of a human rights abuse that ...
New Mexico has initiated an investigation into the forced sterilization of Native American women in the 1970s, aiming to understand the historical impact and promote healing for affected families.