A short bibliography is also provided. While this research project was initially intended to give short accounts for each state, it quickly moved beyond this goal. For those states for which detailed monograph-length studies are availabe, it merely summarizes existing scholarship, but for other states for which such information is not readily available, it establishes the core parameters within which a state's eugenic sterilizations were carried out.
As part of this research the current state of the facilities where sterilizations occurred or that served as feeder institutions is addressed. This research brought into relief one particular piece of information that might not be known even to the specialists in the field.
In Nazi Germany, during the peak years of sterilization between and , approximately sterilizations occurred per year per , residents. Contributions to this project were made by sophomore honors students at the University of Vermont as part of an Honors College course on Disability as Deviance.
In the years between and , unwanted sterilizations were performed on approximately 1, women in California prisons. These operations were based on the same rationale of bad parenting and undesirable genes evident in North Carolina in The doctor performing the sterilizations told a reporter the operations were cost-saving measures.
Unfortunately, forced sterilization continues on. Romani women have been sterilized unwillingly in the Czech Republic as recently as In northern China, Uighurs, a religious and racial minority group, have been subjected to mass sterilization and other measures of extreme population control. All forced sterilization campaigns, regardless of their time or place, have one thing in common. They involve dehumanizing a particular subset of the population deemed less worthy of reproduction and family formation.
They merge perceptions of disability with racism, xenophobia and sexism — resulting in the disproportionate sterilization of minority groups. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. September 23, Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and those with disabilities — and lasted into the 21st century. Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and those with disabilities — and lasted into the 21st century An operation taking place in on South Side of Chicago.
In , the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Relf sisters, revealing that , to , poor people were being sterilized each year under federally-funded programs.
Deborah Reid of the National Health Law program writes :. Accompanying that right is the obligation of the government and larger society to create laws, policies, and systems conducive to supporting those decisions.
For organizations such as the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health , reproductive justice involves not only access to affordable birth control, abortion, and health care, but also providing access to women who are being held in immigration detention centers. And may even still be happening. Read the interview with Belly of the Beast filmmaker Erika Cohn to learn more.
And as Cohn references in that interview, saw the revelation that there were forced sterilizations performed in an ICE detention center in Georgia. Lisa Ko is a New York City-based writer and editor. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University More recently, California prisons are said to have authorized sterilizations of nearly female inmates between and Here are some other important cases: Buck v.
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