When learning that information was (and is) withheld from them, women in the USA today do not immediately equate this to having been a victim of physical assault and battery nor completely understand that they were forcibly sterilized because they were not carried away forcibly to the operating table kicking and screaming. Women in the USA are led to the operating table for sterilization with a metaphoric blindfold on; placed upon them by their obgyn caregiver(s) using "omission".