Something I missed at the time

[james_davis_nicoll]

More than 200,000 people in rural Peru were pressured into being sterilised by the government of former President Alberto Fujimori, an official report has revealed.

and

Sterilisation: Peru's darkest secret

Comments

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

In the hospitals where we might have influence, by the time people are of the age of consent to sterilizations, there are very few foreskins left, most of them having been arbitrarily removed without even the parents' consent.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I don't know any parents who have had that experience, and I know a lot of parents. But it is certainly not appropriate for any hospital to perform any elective surgical procedure on an infant without that infant's parent(s)' or guardian(s)' permission,

Nobody is going to argue otherwise here, I predict.