title: A national sterilization policy: no consensus, especially for the mentally incompetent.
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Hart
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D001519:Behavior; D003068:Coercion; D019049:Developed Countries; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D016656:Family Planning Policy; D005193:Family Planning Services; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D007360:Intelligence; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D009656:North America; D010551:Personality; D011057:Politics; D011584:Psychology; D011640:Public Policy; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Behavior; Developed Countries; Family Planning; Family Planning Policy; Female Sterilization; Handicapped; Intelligence; Involuntary Fertility Control; Laws And Statutes; Male Sterilization; Mental Retardation; North America; Northern America; Personality; Policy; Political Factors; Population Law; Population Policy; Psychological Factors; Social Policy; Sterilization, Sexual; United States