Document Type
Newsletter
Publication Year
1977
Excerpt
The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) has reported that almost 3500 American Indian women were sterilized without their proper consent between 1973 and 1976.
Senator James Abourezk, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Indian Affairs, released the GAO's report. The subcommittee had requested the GAO study because Senator Abourezk had received many complaints that Indian women were being sterilized as a birth-control method without their knowledge or consent.
Recommended Citation
Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, "The Vanguard (Vol. 24, No. 1), Jan-Feb 1977" (1977). The Vanguard. 211.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/vanguard/211
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