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Abstract
An advisory committee designed to assist physicians and patients in decisions regarding
sterilization of mentally handicapped individuals is described. Five patients with
mental retardation who were brought for possible sterilization to the University of
Michigan's Model Clinic for the Reproductive Health Concerns of Persons with Mental
Retardation are presented.
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1This paper was presented in part at the Second Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology held in Cleveland, OH, September 1987.
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© 1988 Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
