Independent Lens

But why were they doing it for? I feel that they were doing it to Hispanics, but I mean, were they doing it for not supporting these kids at the, uh--in the future, or were they getting money at the hospital for doing more sterilization? I always kept those questions in me. I--I never get those answers.

Rosenfeld

Dr. Edward Quilligan at, uh, Los Angeles County Hospital, after I complained to him, this would be the third time. I wasn't there for each one of them. I doubted seriously if they were forced into sterilization. Uh, the doctors who were there told me that they weren't. I believed them. I showed him charts. I went up, and I showed him charts. I said, "See, this woman never desired sterilization," and then there was a note-- "She still refuses sterilization," and then by the fourth note-- "Patient agrees to sterilization." He brought up a problem and, uh, we looked into the problem. Um, I have no idea what his motivations are.

Blanchette

Dr. Quilligan wouldn't have known what was going on down there because, you know, uh, he's upstairs, you know, and the chief residents are running the service. So we, as residents, were the ones that were responsible, you know, to-- to take care of these patients. 'Cause he could have stopped it completely after that. He could have--you know, all you have to do is to tell the resident, "OK. "If--if I catch you doing this one time, you'll be thrown out of the program." It would have never happened again, but it kept happening.