d into the 1970s. For inst…inued into the 1970s. For instance, in the town of Barceloneta alone, 20,000 women were sterilized. By the mid-1960s, one-third of the entire female population of the island had been sterilized, the highest incidence of sterilization in the world. Women were not told nor did they consent to sterilization, which was done for purely racist motives…