OREANDA-NEWS American law allows forced sterilization, and men in the United States are executed much more often than women, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova recalled, commenting on the publication of presidential candidate and current vice President Kamala Harris on the social network X.

Harris, who promised during the election race to protect women's rights to abortion, wrote that she could not recall any law legalizing the decisions of the US government regarding the body of a man.

"It's hard to understand exactly what she meant. After all, the death penalty in the United States has not been abolished at the federal level, it is enshrined in the legislation of 27 states and is carried out, including against men. Moreover, if women in the United States are executed once every half century, then men are executed every year," Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.

She added that forced sterilization is still legalized in the States.

"The first state to legalize it in 1907 was Indiana. In 1909, California, Washington (state) and Connecticut followed suit. From 1907 to 1963, up to 64 thousand people (according to some data, including the period from 1963 to 1970, up to 80 thousand) underwent forced sterilization. Vasectomy was most often applied to men. In rare cases, patients were castrated," Zakharova added.

In 1938, she said, Joseph Desjarnette, director of the Western State Hospital in Staunton, compared the number of people sterilized in Germany and in the United States and advocated "maximizing" the procedure.