Health & Justice
Prohibiting tubal ligations in California’s correctional facilities: understanding the impact of California Senate Bill 1135
Abstract California has a long history of forced sterilizations in state institutions. While the California Eugenics Program ended in 1979, involuntary sterilization continued in California State Prisons into the 2010s. In 2014, California State Senate Bill 1135 banned sterilizations for the purpose of birth control in correctional facilities. We used publicly available data to assess if these prohibitions and procedural changes had the intended result of stopping sterilization for the purpose of birth control in C …