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Birth control shots were forced on Ethiopian immigrants to Israel

By Alexandra | Published: January 28, 2013
TweetFive years after allegations were first levied, and over a month after the issue again attracted mainstream attention through the Israel Educational Television documentary “Vacuum,” the Israeli government has admitted that Ethiopian women were coerced into accepting long-acting birth control shots, likely Depo-Provera. Haaretz writes: …While the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia [...]
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North Carolina still trying to compensate victims of state’s forced sterilization program

By Maya | Published: November 8, 2011
Tweet“I have to carry these scars with me. I have to live with this for the rest of my life.” –Elaine Riddick, who was forcibly sterilized under North Carolina’s eugenics program in 1967 We’ve written before about North Carolina’s particularly terrible forced sterilization law. One of 31 states with a government-run eugenics program, North Carolina [...]
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Dealing with the implications of forced sterilization

By Samhita | Published: June 21, 2011
TweetMotivated by eugenics the United States has a long and dirty history with the use of forced or mandatory sterilization in the name of weeding out society’s ills. The United States was also the first country to implement laws motivated by eugenics and initially focused on people with developmental and physical disabilities, but spread to [...]
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