Authorities in Uzbekistan have reportedly been running a secret
program in the last two years to sterilize women, often without
their knowledge or consent, according to the BBC.  Adolat, a
victim of the secret sterilization program, told BBC that she
had went to see a doctor and discovered that she had been
sterilized after birth to her daughter by Caesarean section.  "I
was shocked. I cried and asked: 'But why? How could they do
this?' The doctor said, 'That's the law in Uzbekistan,'" she
told BBC.  Adolat, who lives in a country where life centers
around children and a big family is a sign of personal success,
is deeply ashamed that she cannot have more children.   "What am
I after what happened to me?" she told BBC. "I always dreamed of
having four - two daughters and two sons - but after my second
daughter I couldn't get pregnant," she says.  While
sterilization is not an official law, women from different parts
of the country all had the same story that was consistent with
those of the doctors and medica