Hours after her second child was born, 19-year-old Helena Ferencikova's joy was dashed. In the recovery room, she discovered that the paper she had signed, not knowing what it said, had allowed doctors to sterilize her. The Vitkovicka hospital in the country's northeast says further pregnancies might have killed her. But Miss Ferencikova thinks the reason was her ethnicity -- Gypsy. Now a court ruling and a high-profile official inquiry have backed her up, and the country is having to confront the charge that an abuse many thought had died with communism is still being practiced. The uproar goes to the broader issue of entrenched European prejudice toward Gypsies -- or Roma as they prefer to be called -- especially in the former communist bloc, where most of the Continent's 7 million to 9 million Gypsies are concentrated. ...
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