The dilemma is that doctors were sterilizing young Mexican American Women. They would be in mid labor and they would get them to sign the papers that said they could sterilizes them. Many were told that if they didn’t sign their babies would die in the hospital. In 1975, ten women filed a class action lawsuit in federal court claiming that the Lost Angeles County U.S.C Medical Center was sterilizing Spanish-speaking mothers who delivered their babies via C-sections. The doctors and nurses would bully them by saying that their babies were burdens on California tax players. Many people think that they did a favor for California.
