Chile government apologizes to woman for forced sterilization

Doctors performed procedure in 2002 without consent while Francisca was under anesthesia because she was HIV positiveThe Chilean state has apologised to a woman who was forcibly sterilised by doctors because she was HIV positive.The woman, known only as Francisca and then 20, was diagnosed with HIV in March 2002 while pregnant with her first child. But while she was under anaesthesia during a Caesarean section, doctors at a public hospital performed a surgical sterilisation on the grounds that i