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Clarence Gamble, an American eugenicist and philanthropist, funds a sterilization program in Puerto Rico.

1940s

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The implementation of this sterilization program enforces tubal ligations on Puerto Rican birthing people, either during labor or after childbirth. Though it is claimed that permission is asked from birthing people, the procedures are often non-consensual or coerced.