But “with only a few months before the program sunsets at the end of 2023, only 80 applications have been approved as of April 2023.”
What the hell? I thought this was going to be about historical stuff from last century. But:
Between 2005 and 2013, California surgically sterilized 144 people in women’s prisons. The majority of the sterilizations occurred at two prisons: Valley State Prison and California Institution for Women in Corona. A single doctor, James Heinrich, was responsible for arranging the bulk of those at Valley State Prison, telling a Reveal reporter the sterilizations were a cost-effective service “compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children—as they procreated more.” It was Heinrich, too, who arranged for Pulido to have a hysterectomy without explanation of what the procedure would entail.
The state ultimately banned sterilization as a method of birth control inside prisons and jails in 2014.
The state ultimately banned sterilization as a method of birth control inside prisons and jails in 2014.
2014!!!Don’t think they’ve actually stopped, they probably just frame it differently now (rather than “birth control”, an act of “compassion”, but eugenics either way, and perhaps even an act of genocide in some cases).
They do it to immigrants
In Canada (and no doubt elsewhere) they do it to Indigenous people
And of course disabled peopleIt’s not like there’s much to stop them targeting these groups.
Eugenics remained alive and well in federal governement efforts until the late 70s. They just didn’t/don’t talk about it because of how the US supported Germany with that leading up to WW2. The Rockefeller Foundation funded eugenics research that employed Josef Mengele, and US literature was literally being used as templates for early Nazi cleansing programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#Influence_on_Nazi_Germany
The 1978 Federal Sterilization Regulations, created by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare or HEW, (now the United States Department of Health and Human Services) outline a variety of prohibited sterilization practices that were often used previously to coerce or force women into sterilization.
I bet those women effected were black or Hispanic
Yes it looks like mostly Latina.
G’morning, Your title might not match the title of the article you linked! Could you please double check, and edit your post title if it indeed does not match? article title: “California struggles to locate victims of forced sterilization” (Similairity: ~52%).
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