sterilization

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/2022
  

  A Survivor of Forced Sterilization Fears its Return as a Consequence of Overturning Roe

  Without a recognized privacy right to reproductive freedom, legal precedents like the Buck v. Bell decision could allow states to resume forcibly sterilizing women they deem unfit for motherhood. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/16/2020
  

  In a Horrifying History of Forced Sterilizations, Some Fear the US is Beginning a New Chapter

  Historians and ethnic studies and legal scholars Natalia Molina, Alexandra Minna Stern, Alan Kraut and Maybell Romero comment on recent whistleblower allegations that ICE detention facilities forced migrant women to have hysterectomies. American racism has long showed itself around questions of who gets to control their own bodies.

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/27/19
  

  A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters

  by Brianna Theobald

  The fight against involuntary sterilization was one of many intertwined injustices rooted in a much longer history of U.S. colonialism. And that history continues to this day.

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• California's Dark History of Eugenics and Compulsory Sterilization

  by Alexandra Minna Stern and Tony Platt

  20,000 patients in more than ten institutions were sterilized in California from 1909 to 1979.

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  Do Liberals Owe An Apology to the Victims of Sterilization? The Case of Margaret Sanger

  by Miriam Reed

  Sterilization--or more particularly, compulsive sterilization--became an issue in America with the rise therein of Eugenics, the name given by the Englishman Francis Galton in 1883 to his newly created science of inquiry. Eugenics had as its purpose race betterment. Eugenics began by asking questions: Why were men what they were? What caused poverty? Why did blue eyes persist in generations along with alcoholism and insanity? The infant science proposed to answer these questions by,