Read your blog (you know me from IND, I gave you and Hal a ride a few months ago) and wish to comment with respect to your forced sterilization article. Wish it did end in the 1960's as you indicate, but sadly it is alive and well in appropriately enough North Carolina. Met someone online in one of my groups who had four children by c-section, she was not allowed to try a vaginal birth due to hospital policy despite being capable of doing so (as are 80% of c women). Discovered after her fourth child that despite trying with her second husband for several years she could not get pregnant. Only when she was examined by an ob/gyn when she relocated to another state did she discover that her tubes had been tied. When confronted, her doctor told her that it was his and others policy to not allow a woman who had four children by c-section to have anymore, and that he tied her tubes without her consent. Incredible, but there was nothing she could do about it. Apparently the law down there protects the doctors and hospitals so long as they can show that it was in the patients best interest!!!!