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...Horner has also witnessed numerous cases of actual or near sterilization abuse like the one she describes above...
...Doctors have this attitude with Blacks. If a woman comes in with cramps, they automatically assume she is diseased and they are ready to snatch her tubes out," Horner said...
Still, most activists and medical practitioners agree that the poor bear a large share of the sterilization abuse problem. Both Horner and Wolfe cite educational barriers as a main obstacle to communication between doctors and patients...
...Some doctors don't explain what is going on," Horner says. "Doctors don't use lingo: they don't talk the patient's language. A woman will ask a doctor if she has her uterus out, can she have children. Harvard (which used to be affiliated with Boston City Hospital) has not been able to communicate to poor people, like using the word 'womb' instead of 'uterus' to explain," she adds...