By
Hannah Poukish
and
Alex Cohen
El Segundo
PUBLISHED 10:01 AM PT Mar. 04, 2021
PUBLISHED 10:01 AM PST Mar. 04, 2021
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Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, D-Los Angeles, tells
Inside the Issues how her new legislation reckons with California’s long history of sterilizing women without their consent.
What You Need To Know
Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo is pushing for legislation to compensate women who were previously sterilized against their will
California has sterilized more than 20,000 people over the last century
Up until 2010, incarcerated women held in California prisons were still being sterilized without their consent
Carrillo wants to pass a bill that would create a fund to compensate every woman who was involuntarily sterilized in the state