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Forced sterilization in Europe

2025 · 26 min · English

Twelve EU countries still allow women with disabilities to be sterilized without consent, and this film follows Sara Rocha, an autistic Portuguese activist and expectant mother, as she campaigns to end the practice while connecting with women it already happened to. Belgian survivor Natacha Ooteghem, sterilized at 24 on her mother's decision, speaks for the first time about the anger she's carried since.

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