強制不妊、新たに６人提訴　仙台、東京、名古屋３地裁

　旧優生保護法に基づき不妊手術を強制されたとして、脳性まひなどの障害がある６０～７０代の男女計６人が２６日、国に計約１億５８７０万円を求める訴訟を仙台、東京、名古屋の３地裁に起こした。弁護団によると、強制不妊をめぐる原告は計３０人となった。大分県でも１０月に１人が提訴する予定。
　訴状などによると、原告は１人当たり１３２０万～３３００万円を請求している。
　東京都日野市の西スミ子さん（７５）は、脳性まひで自力歩行ができなかった１４歳ごろ、同意がないまま不妊手術を受けさせられた。宮城県の知的障害のある千葉利二さん（７２）ら３人と、名古屋市の聴覚障害のある夫婦のうち妻も１０～２０代で手術を強制され「個人の尊厳や自己決定権を侵害され憲法違反だ」などと訴えた。
　また、２０１９年成立の救済法に基づき支給された一時金３２０万円では不十分だとしている。（2022/09/26-18:46）

The Japanese government is slated to face three new damages lawsuits over forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenic protection law.
   On Monday, a woman with cerebral palsy filed a lawsuit with Tokyo District Court, and three people with intellectual and other disabilities raised a suit at Sendai District Court in Miyagi Prefecture. A couple with hearing disabilities is set to submit a damages claim to Nagoya District Court later in the day.
   According to the plaintiffs' lawyers, the Tokyo woman, Sumiko Nishi, 75, was forced to undergo a sterilization operation without her consent when she was 14. The Miyagi plaintiffs, in their 60s to 70s, underwent forced sterilization at the age of 14 or in their 20s, and the wife in her 70s of the Nagoya couple had such an operation when she was in her 20s.
   The plaintiffs in the three cases demand that the government pay a total of 158.7 million yen in damages.
   "I would not have had the operation had I known what it meant," Nishi told a press conference on Monday. "I want the government to take proper responsibility for making such a cruel law for people with disabilities."