Sterilization Order. Courtesy: Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, University of Michigan, and California State Archives.

Increasing limits on abortion are boosting demand for contraception. But access to family planning is shrinking in many ...

And hovering over the conversation about sterilization, beyond horrific abuses of the past, is the fact that there are differences in rates among ethnic groups: African American, Native American and ...

A similar University of Michigan study previously showed a spike in sterilization requests immediately after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Researchers at Columbia University found that ...

Liberals are not OK. The protest in Michigan was one of many around the country last Wednesday to challenge the early actions of the Trump administration, which is operating at an unprecedented pace.

Michigan State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky is seen before Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation to repeal the 1931 abortion ban statute, which criminalized abortion in nearly all cases during a bill ...

Michigan State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky faces backlash and threats after revealing her elective sterilization. The Livonia Democrat said she made the choice in defiance of Trump-era policies, stating ...

Michigan lawmaker from Livonia faces backlash over sterilization decision State Representative Laurie Pohutsky revealed she had permanent surgery preventing her from having children. She told FOX ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan state lawmaker told a crowd protesting President Trump’s early actions this week that she underwent elective surgery to remove her reproductive organs. State Rep.