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The perpetual wound 2 minutes read
Marta Rullán
Lima, Jan 21 (efe-epa).- Maria Elena Carbajal was sterilized on 18 September 1996, after giving birth to her fourth child, amid pain and lies and under pressure from doctors who told that she might lose her newborn.
“The doctors and nurses came to ask me to have a ligation,” she says, barely able to hold back her tears. “I told them ‘no, my husband wouldn’t like it’, but they kept on repeating that I didn’t have to sign any papers, that I would be able to have more children.
“Because they kept insisting and to be able to see my son, I was forced to accept.”