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More than 200,000 women were sterilized in the 90s in Peru as part of a state policy of Alberto Fujimori’s government. Photos by Liz Tasa and Tadeo Bourbón. Used with permission. This article was published by Salud con Lupa on December 23, 2023. An edited version is republished on Global Voices under a media partnership. On December 7, 2024 — the same day that the Constitutional Court released former President Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity — the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru stopped the judicial process for hundreds of thousands of forced s…