#OurMothersToo: Reckoning With My Abuela’s Coerced Sterilization

Quiara Alegría Hudes

By 1974, tubal ligations became so ubiquitous on the island that over a third of its women had received la operación—giving Puerto Rico the highest sterilization rate in the world.

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