Avila v. New York Health and Hospitals Corporation, 22 July 1987


Annual Review of Population Law 14: 31

1987


ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417
PMID: 12346684
Document Number: 383882
The Supreme Court of New York held that an institution receiving federal funds and performing sterilizations may not arbitrarily prevent a mentally competent person and freely consenting individual from being sterilized. The plaintiff was a thirty-seven year old woman who, although mildly retarded, was not mentally incompetent under federal law.

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