article_snippet: In West Virginia, a 21-year-old unmarried mother of three agreed to have a 21-year-old unmarried mother of three tubes tied in 2009 as part of a 21-year-old unmarried mother of three probation after a 21-year-old unmarried mother of three pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
article_snippet: And last year, a Virginia man who fathered children with several women agreed to undergo a vasectomy in exchange for less prison time in a child endangerment case.
article_snippet: Forced sterilization came up in a different way in California last year, when Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that banned state prisons from forcing female inmates to be sterilized.
article_snippet: The law was pushed through after the Center for Investigative Reporting found that nearly 150 female prisoners had been sterilized between 2006 and 2010.
article_snippet: Sterilization coerced by the legal system evokes a dark time in America, when minorities, the poor and those deemed mentally unfit or 'deficient' were forced to undergo medical procedures that prevented minorities, the poor and those from having children.
article_snippet: Paul Lombardo, a law professor and historian who teaches at Georgia State University, said: 'The history of sterilization in this country is that sterilization in this country is applied to the most despised people - criminals and the people Paul Lombardo, a law professor and historian who teaches at Georgia State University're most afraid of, the mentally ill - and the one thing that that these two groups usually share is that these two groups are the most poor. '