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Winig said that UHS, which established its gynecology department in 1973, has no history of sterilization abuse. UHS's two gynecologists perform sterilizations only by informed consent...
...Most people who consent to sterilization are older people who have completed their families. Occasionally, younger people without families will come in, but I try to discourage them from sterilization because there are so many other ways to keep them from getting pregnant without using such an irrevocable procedure," Winig added...
Although some women require sterilization for medical reasons--a hysterectomy may be necessary to remove cancerous tissue, for example-- many of these women had no such medical problem. Moreover, some of these women were sterilized not only without medical reason without their consent...
...appendectomy. She woke up in the recovery room with her doctor standing at her beside. While still in an anesthetic haze, she listed as her doctor explained that he had removed her appendix. Then, she cried as she learned that her doctor had also without her consent removed her fallopian tubes because he felt she already had enough children. At the time, she was a twenty-one year old mother of three. Unable to bear the male child she says her husband wanted, Gore divorced a year and a half after the 'operation; she has never remarried...
Bernays is acutely aware of the potential dangers of "the engineering of consent." A man who believes in democracy (indeed, he seems to use the word at least a half a dozen times a day) Bernays was dismayed when he learned that Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, displayed a copy of his Propaganda in his library. Bernays wrote in the 1928 book that "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses" is the mechanism by which the true wielders of power rule a country. "They were going after the thing...