Mississippi Appendectomy
source: http://mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/black-women-in-the-1960s-and-1970s/
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In the US South, throughout the the 1960s and 1970s, federally funded welfare state programs underwrote the coercive sterilization of thousands of poor black women. Under threat of termination of welfare benefits or denial of medical care, many black women “consented” to sterilization procedures. Within southern black communities knowledge of the routine imposition of non-consensual and medically-unnecessary sterilization on black women was well known - a practice so common it came to be known as a “Mississippi appendectomy.” (Roberts 2000)
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