But “with only a few months before the program sunsets at the end of 2023, only 80 applications have been approved as of April 2023.”

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    What the hell? I thought this was going to be about historical stuff from last century. But:

    Between 2005 and 2013, California surgically sterilized 144 people in women’s prisons. The majority of the sterilizations occurred at two prisons: Valley State Prison and California Institution for Women in Corona. A single doctor, James Heinrich, was responsible for arranging the bulk of those at Valley State Prison, telling a Reveal reporter the sterilizations were a cost-effective service “compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children—as they procreated more.” It was Heinrich, too, who arranged for Pulido to have a hysterectomy without explanation of what the procedure would entail.

    The state ultimately banned sterilization as a method of birth control inside prisons and jails in 2014.