sterilization
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The staffers were also early adopters of telemedicine; the deadly nature of the Ebola virus required intense sterilization of anything that came into contact with a patient.
From Slate ● May 14, 2026
In her very long and very twisty new novel, the author examines a Depression-era sterilization law in Mississippi, thereby connecting three white female characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Together, the data showed that long-term hormonal contraception and permanent surgical sterilization are linked to an average lifespan increase of about ten percent.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026
When the time comes, these words from Ms. Antonetta will merit consideration: “Programs of euthanasia and sterilization don’t just live in the past, terrible but finished. Their aftershocks are terrible and here.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Total, unequivocal sterilization is extremely difficult to achieve in practice and is almost impossible to verify afterward.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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In 2024, new research found that despite all the attention on male vasectomies post-Dobbs, the rise in tubal sterilizations among females was twice as high as the increase among vasectomies in males.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
But claims that his comments caused sterilizations to happen 20 or 30 years later “is factually baseless and legally unjust,” Douglas wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
And several past presidents supported voluntary and compulsory eugenic sterilizations at some point in their careers.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 24, 2023
Wade, something she thought would never happen, she asked her health insurance provider if it covered sterilizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
For a while, it seemed as if the future of eugenic sterilizations in America depended on the foggy impressions of a nurse who had been handed a cranky baby without toys.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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