Anita cannot speak or comprehend complex information. At 28, she communicates mostly with facial expressions and baby-like sounds. When excited, she washes her hands. When her periods cause cramping and pain, she moans and agitates, unable to understand.

To eliminate this monthly discomfort and ease the burden of caring for her, caregivers at an assisted-living home in Reykjavik, Iceland, recommended that Anita undergo a hysterectomy, a major surgical procedure to remove her uterus and end her periods.

Eirikur Smith, an official in Iceland’s disabilities office, discovered this plan last year during a routine visit to the home.

“Does she even know if she wants children later?” he asked.

The manager, just laughed in my face.

“‘Of course not,’ she replied. “‘Why would she ever want children?’, would a 3 yr old want children?

Eirikur was stunned at the inhumanity of the answer
When Eirikur asked Anita if She would like a little real doll to play with, Anita gave a big smile and said, "arfff!"

Forced sterilization, with its history of racism and eugenics, is banned under multiple international treaties. Thirty-seven European nations and the European Union have ratified the Istanbul Convention, which declares, without exception, that nonconsensual sterilization is a human rights violation.

But a New York Times investigation found over a third of those countries have made exceptions, often for people that the government deems too disabled to consent

The result is that people with intellectual disabilities — mostly women — are still being sterilized, even when it is not medically necessary.

https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/25/despite-bans-disabled-women-are-still-being-sterilized-in-europe/