sterilization
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In her very long and very twisty new novel, the author examines a Depression-era sterilization law in Mississippi, thereby connecting three white female characters.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
In females, several forms of sterilization were associated with longer lives, suggesting that the benefit comes from avoiding the intense physical demands of pregnancy, nursing, and reproductive cycling.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
When the time comes, these words from Ms. Antonetta will merit consideration: “Programs of euthanasia and sterilization don’t just live in the past, terrible but finished. Their aftershocks are terrible and here.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
All three belong to Sterigenics, a company that provides industrial sterilization technology for medical devices and other commercial products at two locations in Los Angeles and one in San Bernardino County.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025
The vast sterilization and containment programs required the creation of an equally vast administrative apparatus.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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