A woman at the center of a landmark lawsuit on reproductive rights has died. Dolores Madrigal was 39 years old in the early 1970s when she was sterilized by the doctors who had just delivered her baby ...
She was among hundreds of women who said they were coerced into sterilization at a California hospital in the 1970s. The lawsuit led to state and national reforms. By Michael S. Rosenwald Dolores ...
On a fall morning in East L.A. in 1974, Dolores Madrigal and her husband, Orencio, ate breakfast while listening to ranchera radio station KWKW when a news segment aired that would change her life.
In the 1970s, doctors sterilized Dolores Madrigal without her knowledge. She became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit by Mexican-American women who said they were coerced into having their tubes tied.
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