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by satvikpendem 520 days ago
I don't know about the UK but people would definitely be against it in the US, as it encroaches on what people perceive to be able to have as many kids as possible, regardless of whether they can support them or not. That's part of the big deal with the abortion debate as well.
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>people would definitely be against it in the US

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilizat...

"More recently, California prisons are said to have authorized sterilizations of nearly 150 female inmates between 2006 and 2010. The Center for Investigative Reporting reveals how the state paid doctors $147,460 to perform tubal ligations that former inmates say were done under coercion."

To the response below: if something happens in the open and systematically, and nobody punished for it that means people are supporting it. They may clutch their pearls and turn their noses away for show, yet they support it nevertheless.

Your link does not support the claim that people would not be against it, prisons do unethical things all the time that others may strongly oppose.