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Article sixteen states that “Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.” In other, more simpler words, every person no matter their race, religion, or nationality, is entitled to the right of having a family. “...procedures thought to have been performed on one out of every four Native American women at the time, against their knowledge or consent” (The Little-Known History of the Forced Sterilization of Native American Women.). Many native american and african american women are so frequently, unknowingly sterilized due to their race/nationality. By forced sterilization, that right is being taken away from so many women, just because they aren’t the same as everyone else, with no before thought. ”Used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations – immigrants, people of color, poor people, unmarried mothers, the disabled, the mentally ill…”(Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States). People believe that our population needs to be segregated and “under control”, so they resort to wrongfully controlling it themselves. Even if people believe they need to keep our population “clean”, it still gives no one the excuse to take away a woman’s rights