Dolores Madrigal, lead plaintiff in landmark sterilization case, dies at 90

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Dolores Madrigal, lead plaintiff in landmark sterilization case, dies at 90
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Madrigal vs. Quilligan continues to be taught in universities and retold in academic books as a cautionary tale, its plaintiffs hailed as reproductive-rights heroines.

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. The couple heard about how 100 people had protested in front of Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center to decry the hospital's years-long practice of sterilizing low-income women without their consent.

9 in Las Vegas of natural causes. She was 90. She was born in the small town of Villa Purificación, Mexico, and migrated to the United States in 1965. Madrigal legalized her status with the help of a white family for whom Dolores took care of their developmentally disabled son, according to Oren. In East L.A., she reunited with her childhood sweetheart, Orencio. They married in 1971, and had their sons one year after the other.

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