Reminder that informed consent can be violated in subtle ways we have to watch out for, especially for minoritized women

Bioethics / medical ethics folks, and people who work on reproduction, obstetrics, and gynecology may want this on their radar: Black women with sickle cell anemia pressured to undergo sterilization. It’s clearly not forced sterilization, and more like coerced sterilization caused by deliberate misinformation and time pressure. It definitely constitutes an attempt to manipulate patients into making decisions for really suspect reasons of the doctor’s own, not the patients’ own. Here’s a quick link to learn more, with an illustrative quote, below: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/sterilization-of-sickle-cell-patients-is-part-of-a-long-history-of-abuse/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0NjQDJ46FiyedUcCmrJZAJy5p5nDrAUXzKUvj5-ZWLFUsj-DqufeKobvs_aem_kd9tLJcg9bcAj5e4YEZG2Q

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“The STAT piece, “Coercive Care: How Doctors Are Pressuring Sickle Cell Patients into Unwanted Sterilizations,” features the harrowing stories of women who now regret their decision to end their ability to have a child in the face of coercive medical practices. The cases allege that women were pushed into making abrupt decisions about their reproductive lives, where the complications of pregnancy for women with SCD were presented as almost certain death.”

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