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!!! I’ve seen this circulating with people calling it unprecedented. Except there is a long list of examples in this country of forced sterilization, especially of Black and brown women. https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/09/10024657/ice-hysterectomies-immigration-whistleblower-project-south
There is long history of Native American sterilizations. https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/
NC became the first state to pass a reparations program for forced sterilizations from slavery. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/reparations-slavery.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share via @NYTimes
And there was the CA forced sterilization program targeting Latinos. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-targeted-latinas-forced-sterilization-180968567/
And people with disabilities have endured forced sterilizations-and continue to do so today. https://rewire.news/article/2014/11/17/disabled-people-still-forcibly-sterilized-isnt-anyone-talking/
ICE is acting in line with a long racist and sexist history, one that totally devalues our bodies, lives and futures. Do not look away just because it isn’t the first time.
To be clear(er)-it is this long history that makes me understand that forced sterilization under ICE is not only possible, it’s in keeping with a white supremacist and misogynistic agenda.
