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From the 1920s to the 1970s, North Carolina had a state sterilization program where 7,600 residents were deemed unable to have children because they were considered “defective, “deviant,” or “feebleminded.”
A majority of those sterilized were Black. http://read.medium.com/rk3PlcC
A majority of those sterilized were Black. http://read.medium.com/rk3PlcC
The recent allegations that a Georgia detention center performed medically questionable hysterectomies on undocumented immigrants without their consent are part of a long and sordid history of forced sterilization programs.
Here a just a few stories:
https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
Here a just a few stories:
https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
In 1961, civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer went into the hospital to remove a troublesome uterine growth and left without a uterus.
She called that surgical bait and switch “the Mississippi appendectomy.” https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
She called that surgical bait and switch “the Mississippi appendectomy.” https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
Studies from the 1940s to the 1960s routinely found that a third of Puerto Rican mothers got their tubes “tied” or had an outright hysterectomy after previous births. https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
In the 1960s and 1970s, LA County General Hospital sterilized Spanish-speaking Mexican American women who were working-class.
The women were often pushed to decide during difficult births or promised access to other medical services if they agreed. https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
The women were often pushed to decide during difficult births or promised access to other medical services if they agreed. https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
Native and Indigenous women have been particularly vulnerable.
In one case, two Northern Cheyenne 15-year-olds showed up to get their tonsils out and got tubal ligations instead. https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
In one case, two Northern Cheyenne 15-year-olds showed up to get their tonsils out and got tubal ligations instead. https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
A 2013 investigation by @reveal found the California corrections department sterilized 150 women without heeding proper protocol between 2006 and 2010. https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
The OBGYN who approved the surgeries:
“Over a 10-year period, [the $147,000 spent on the surgeries] isn’t a huge amount of money compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children — as they procreated more.” https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
“Over a 10-year period, [the $147,000 spent on the surgeries] isn’t a huge amount of money compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children — as they procreated more.” https://zora.medium.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-of-forced-sterilization-programs-e9e33d849893
