Michaela from Richnava had her first child when she was 14 and her second
child in 1996 when she was 16. She suspects that she was sterilized during
her second delivery, which was a cesarean. “It was 11p.m. when I went to the
Krompachy hospital and the doctor was there and screamed at me, ‘You fucking
gypsy whore. How dare you deliver at 12 a.m.!’ He then immediately
took me upstairs, swearing continuously, and did a C-section on me without
any other explanation. . . . The second time I went to the hospital, it was
another doctor. She asked me, ‘Why did the doctor do a C-section on you?’
and I said ‘I don’t know.’ Then she put me to sleep and did the second C-section.
Maybe I signed something but I do not remember when or what it is.
When I left, they said that I will have more children, but for six years I wait
and nothing.”178 Michaela wanted more children and decided to pursue
treatment. “Three years ago, I went to get fertility treatments, to reverse my
sterilization, but the patients there were saying that horrible things are done
to us. So I got scared and ran away. I was also scared because I saw the doctor
in the halls over there. When he saw me, he said, ‘You stinky gypsy. God
should punish you as you deserve!’”179