The Women’s Health Activist Newsletter

Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias: A Warrior in the Struggle for Reproductive Rights

By NWHN Staff | Jan 5, 1996 | Comments Off on Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias: A Warrior in the Struggle for Reproductive Rights

An interview with long-time NWHN board member Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, M.D. on her work fighting against sterilization abuse.

Sterilization Abuse: The Policies Behind the Practice

By NWHN Staff | Jan 5, 1996 | Comments Off on Sterilization Abuse: The Policies Behind the Practice

Instead of providing women with access to alternative forms of safe, legal, and reversible contraception, U.S. policy promoted the use of permanent sterilization. By 1968, women of childbearing age in Puerto Rico were more than ten times more likely to be sterilized than were women from the mainland U.S.