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This is eugenics. https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1305553553625243648
Our nation has a very dark history of eugenics and reproductive coercion, from the founding of gynecology ( https://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513764158/remembering-anarcha-lucy-and-betsey-the-mothers-of-modern-gynecology) and the birth control pill ( https://remezcla.com/culture/birth-control-testing-puerto-rico/) to the "Mississippi appendectomy" ( http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/day-17-mississippi-appendectomies) and other forced sterilizations.
"North Carolina sterilized 7,600 people through its eugenic sterilization program...30 states had, and enforced, eugenic sterilization laws on the books, on the now-discredited theory that preventing the “defective” from reproducing would benefit humanity" http://www.msnbc.com/all/eugenic-sterilization-victims-belated-justice
Only until recently did some states pay reparations and stop the practice of sterilizing poor and/or disabled people of color. Several states have forcibly sterilized people who were incarcerated. California banned coerced sterilizations in 2014. https://talkpoverty.org/2017/08/23/u-s-still-forcibly-sterilizing-prisoners/
The documentary Belly of the Beast goes in depth about the pervasive—and recent—history of sterilizing incarcerated people in California, and follows @justicenoworg's effort to pass a bill giving reparations to those who were harmed. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/california-prisons-forced-sterilizations-belly-beast
These allegations at the ICE detention center are extremely disturbing and I hope there will be a full investigation and justice for the immigrant women harmed.
