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 ">https://read.medium.com/rk3PlcC&q...
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.

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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">https://zora.medium.com/the-long-...
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">https://zora.medium.com/the-long-...
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">https://zora.medium.com/the-long-...
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