Identify the thesis or argument or interpretation; provide a general overview-summary of the reading(s)? Antonia Hernndez had just begun her first job as a staff attorney at the Los Angeles County Center for Law and Justice when Bernard Rosenfeld, a resident at lacmc, approached her with data proving that women were being coercively sterilized there.1 Rosenfeld provided her with information on more than 180 cases of primarily Spanish-surname women who were sterilized during childbirth. All were approached by hospital staff who recommended the procedure during the late stages of their labor, after they had already been administered large doses of Demerol or Valium. Many of the women required emergency cesarean sections, and following their deliveries there was no signed consent form for tubal ligation or any other record of their agreement to the procedure in their files. Rosenfeld had gone through the medical records of hundreds upon hundreds of Spanish-surname patients; reviewing their indications for cesarean section, he recognized a clear pattern of coercion. Th e notes on one twenty-three-year-old patient with one child read: "Failure to deliver baby with forceps. Caesarean section needed. Consents signed in markedly distressed handwriting, in English. No medical indication for sterilization." A month and a half later, upon a visit to the Family Planning Clinic to request birth control, this patient was fitted with an intra-uterine