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 lawsuit led to state and national reforms. By Michael S. Rosenwald Dolores Madrigal, the lead plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit brought by Latina women in California who said they were coerced ...

In the 1970s, doctors sterilized Dolores Madrigal without her knowledge. She became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit by Mexican-American women who said they were coerced into having their tubes tied.

A woman at the center of a landmark lawsuit on reproductive rights has died. Dolores Madrigal was 39 years old in the early 1970s when she was sterilized by the doctors who had just delivered her ...