 This finding could be related to Medicaid-funded sterilizations in the postpartum period that are not available to men.Compulsory sterilization refers to governmental policies put in place as part of human population planning or as a form of eugenics (improving hereditary qualities of a race or breed by controlling mating) to prevent certain groups of people from reproducing.An example of forced sterilization that was ended within the last two decades is Japan’s Race Eugenic Protection Law, which required citizens with mental disorders to be sterilized.