compulsory sterilization
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Mississippi Appendectomy
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) In the US South, throughout the the 1960s and 1970s, federally funded welfare state programs underwrote the coercive sterilization of ... more
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Native Americans Secretly Sterilized
Yes, and the Bush family pops up again in connection with putting the program in place.
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War on the Weak - Eugenics Legislation Video
YouTube - War on the Weak by Liam Dunaway /
"Created for the 2007 NHD Competition. Following the theme "Triumph & Tragedy", this documentary depicts the U.S. Eugenic legislation throughout the early 20th Century and chronicles the compulsory sterilization faced by many Americans. "War on the Weak" continues to analyze negative eugenics by discussing the U.S. Supreme
Court case of Buck v. Bell. Furthermore, the parallels present among U.S. and Nazi ideologies on the nature of eugenics are presented, along with an exposition on the affinity Nazi scientists had for U.S. eugenics laws. The documentary concludes with a look at modern genetic research and leaves the viewer with the hopeful message of a society free of ailments but warns of the dangers on science that is not kept in check with the moral values of humanity.
Director: Liam Dunaway. Producer: Liam Dunaway. Production Company: The Radley Place. Keywords: eugenics; nazi medicine; buck v. bell; genome; ero; laughlin; strode; virginia; hitler; cumpulsory sterilization; procreational autonomy; nhd; triumph and tragedy; war on the weak;
Contact Information: liamdunaway@mac.com http://www.theradleyplace.com.
Click link to view informative video on the history of eugenics and forced sterilization of criminals and other undesirables that included immigrants, Mixed bloods French Canadians, and Blacks in the U.S. Prescott Bush was the head of the Connecticut Eugenics Society.
Picture is of the woman in the first court case where she was declared unfit to reproduce and ordered to be forcibly sterilized as part of the Eugenics Experiments of the early 20th century.
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