The State of North Carolina sterilized Mary English. The Fayetteville woman was 22 at the time, pregnant and divorced. The year was 1972. She says the doctor who performed the procedure told her it was birth control. Almost three years later the same doctor, an OB-GYN, said she had been sterilized. English cried that she had not been told that before. She says the doctor scoffed at her concern and even laughed. The doctor still works in Fayetteville, she says. “I know who he is, and he knows who he is,” she says. She is not ready to reveal his...
