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Internist Dr. Bernard Rosenfeld speaks out against the lack of informed consent in tubal ligation procedures.

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Dr. Rosenfeld charges the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California (USC) Medical Center for pushing Mexican-American women, many of who are monolingual Spanish speakers, into getting tubal ligations during the late stages of active labor.

In 1975, the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice files a class action suit on behalf of the women. The case will be heard in 1978 in federal court, where 10 sterilized women charge that their constitutional rights to bear children have been violated, and that no informed consent has been given. The women will lose the case.