Women in Namibia Fight Back Against Foced Sterilization

http://blog.soros.org/2010/11/women-in-namibia-fight-back-against-forced-sterilization/comment-page-1/#comment-10740

I found this article and was surprised at how prominent the issue of forced sterilization is around the world. According to this blog, forced sterilization among HIV-positive women is an increasing global issue around the world. The World Health Organization has stated, that the chance an HIV-positive mother, with proper medication and treatment, will pass on the HIV to her child, is "virtually nonexistent". However, even with this knowledge, women around the world are being sterilized with out their consent, and hospitals that perform these procedures, give excuses that don't match up and hide the truth. These women are being tricked into signing over their reproductive rights as women, just like the mother of the Relf sisters was tricked into signing over her own daughters' reproductive rights. After reading this, I have come to suspect that maybe these hospitals are not owning up to the real reason for their "desperate" and deceitful acts of forced sterilization.