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Coerced sterilization is a crime against humanity. https://twitter.com/cjciaramella/status/1305609524733251584">https://twitter.com/cjciarame...
People are not nearly as outraged by the abhorrent and grotesquely evil practice of inmate sterilization as you might expect. Ask me how I know. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/05/20/tennessee-inmate-sterilization-program/3748232002/">https://www.tennessean.com/story/new...
Also, to be clear, “crime against humanity” is not a turn of phrase here. Enforced sterilization is an actual, specific, and literal crime against humanity. #article7">https://www.icc-cpi.int/resourcelibrary/official-journal/rome-statute.aspx #article7">https://www.icc-cpi.int/resourcel...
This practice is not new. It also is not old. It is thankfully rare, but not as rare as you’d think. It is definitely here, sometimes adopted formally, sometimes not: https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/article/13058651/controversial-and-recently-fired-ada-brian-holmgren-defends-pleabargaining-tactics">https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/arti...
It is a practice that is too frequently defended, sometimes in whispers, sometimes in open argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit: https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/19a0060p-06.pdf">https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions....
Civil rights lawyers have been fighting tirelessly against government-sponsored sterilization in this country for an actual century, perhaps longer. Here’s one of them (Fred Gray, Tuskegee, AL): https://twitter.com/scot_blog/status/1154092785315786752">https://twitter.com/scot_blog...
This is what the end of a government sterilization program looks like. It is at once tremendous and tremendously insufficient.
Greetings, you goddamn fucking fool. This thread is, to the contrary, a product of this Jew’s RAGE about government-sponsored sterilization, which I have some experience with because I ended such a program in my state and gave half the award to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. https://twitter.com/godlovesugly22/status/1305696542771339266">https://twitter.com/godlovesu...
A few US jurisdictions have voluntarily paid reparations for their sterilization programs: https://www.npr.org/2011/12/28/144375339/a-brutal-chapter-in-north-carolinas-eugenics-past.">https://www.npr.org/2011/12/2... Many people who were sterilized are still alive.
A government official who sterilizes someone can (probably) still get qualified immunity for doing so based on the insane and never-formally-overruled jurisprudence that blessed the practice for a terrifying amount of time. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/07/469478098/the-supreme-court-ruling-that-led-to-70-000-forced-sterilizations">https://www.npr.org/sections/...
Lots—LOTS—of *current* US government officials think sterilization is an appropriate punishment for criminal offenses. They rarely get pushback, but sometimes, they do. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/01/judge-tennessee-election-law-incompatible-first-amendment/5551097002/">https://www.tennessean.com/story/new...
That is correct: https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/">https://time.com/5737080/n... In shocking numbers. https://twitter.com/n8tvegranny/status/1305707718242566144?s=21">https://twitter.com/n8tvegran...
Caselaw remains well behind modern norms. E.g.—this is what qualifies as a “good” opinion on sterilization: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2616095/smith-v-superior-court/">https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2... The holding: “such a serious and far reaching act should not be required by the court without a specific statutory or constitutional authorization.”
It would be nice if we developed sufficient consensus that this is an evil practice that we banned it by statute everywhere: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/04/17/tennessee-lawmakers-pass-bill-forbid-judges-sterilizing-inmates/524290002/">https://www.tennessean.com/story/new...
Until then, outrage is essential. Otherwise, we’ll be stuck with constant efforts to return to the dark ages, because in so many ways, we’re still there and have barely evolved. /End https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tennessee-chemical-castration/">https://www.thenation.com/article/p...
