Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she says she was raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C. Nine months later, in 1968, she was involuntarily sterilized in the hospital while delivering her first and only child.
She had absolutely no idea she had undergone the procedure. It was revealed to her years later when she was looking to have children after getting married.
The doctors ultimately butchered her, very savagely and carelessly cutting, tying and cauterizing her fallopian tubes. She suffered from complications from the procedure throughout her life, "robbing her" of her childhood due to bouts of hemorrhaging frequently and fainting. She is now 68 and living with the effects of this procedure.
Source: Meena Venkataramanan. “She Survived a Forced Sterilization. Activists Fear More Could Occur Post-Roe.” Washington Post, The Washington Post, 24 July 2022, www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/07/24/forced-sterilization-dobbs-roe/. Accessed 1 May 2023.
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