Tag Archives: sterilization
Dealing with the implications of forced sterilization
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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Desperately Seeking Sterilization: the politics of privilege
Originally posted in Community Blog
TweetMy post-collegiate boyfriend was an affable Dane who later became a public school teacher. Children loved him, and (I think) he loved children, but he didn’t want to have any of his own. That was his story, anyway. He spoke loudly and often about not wanting to breed, or parent, or do anything involving the [...]
Also tagged bodily autonomy, Class, Feminism, Gender, heteronormativity, Jewishness, Motherhood, obstetrician, privilege, Race, reproductive choice, reproductive health, Reproductive Rights, tubal ligation Comments closed
North Carolina still trying to compensate victims of state’s forced sterilization program