Thread: "I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp ...” the detainee said... “Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody,” Wooten said... (1) #GenocideArticle2d #eugenics lawandcrime.com/high-profile/l…
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, ratified by U.S. in 1988. See Article 2, item d, "measures intended to prevent births within the group." #GenocideArticle2d #eugenics ohchr.org/EN/Professiona…
See also Article 3-8. Punishable acts of genocide: commission, conspiracy, direct/public incitement, attempt to commit, complicity. Prosecution: Extradition, competent international tribunals, jurisdiction over parties. #GenocideArticle2d #eugenics ohchr.org/EN/Professiona…
Unfortunately, the U.S. has a long history of #ForcedHysterectomies. U.S. #eugenics policies influenced Nazi Germany & persisted for 70 years, into living memory. mic.com/p/a-brief-raci…
"Between the 1930s and the 1970s, approximately one-third of the female population of Puerto Rico was sterilized, making it highest rate of sterilization in the world." #ForcedHysterectomies panoramas.pitt.edu/health-and-soc…
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