Eugenic Protection Law subjected 16500 people to forced sterilisation and was aimed at eliminating ‘inferior’ children Junko Iizuka* was 16 when she was taken to a clinic in north-east Japan and forced to contain a mystery operation that,she later discovered, would prevent her from ever having children.“I was given anaesthetic and I didn’t remember anything after that, or ” she says.
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Source: guardian.co.uk