 Additionally, both sisters were forced by clinic staff to sign false documents indicating that they were over twenty-one.The family later filed a complaint through the Southern Poverty Law Center citing that the treatment of the sisters at the clinic was abusive and coercive because 1) neither the mother nor her daughters gave any indication of wanting to undergo surgical sterilization, 2) neither mother nor daughters met with the physician who would perform the operation before the fact, and 3) neither mother nor daughters received information about the consequences of tubal sterilization from a physician or member of the clinic staff.The Relf case prompted many other African American, Native American, and Latina women to come forth with similar stories of coercion.