If you doubted that there are still forced sterilizations being carried out, read this. If perhaps, like @holzprueghel, you found yourself saying something like, "I believe it when I see it," then read this.
For my own records, I'll paste some of my recent tweets below. 1/
For my own records, I'll paste some of my recent tweets below. 1/
My following tweets are from this conversation. 2/
Forced sterilization of Indigenous happened with some frequency in US and Canada. It’s well documented.
Yvonne Boyer and Judith Bartlett, External Review: Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women (2017). 3/
Yvonne Boyer and Judith Bartlett, External Review: Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women (2017). 3/
There's a lawsuit underway that will address exactly the questions you are concerned about.
The history of eugenics absolutely flies. It is not a long ago history, and there's ample research that shows the forced sterilization was not just practiced... 4/
The history of eugenics absolutely flies. It is not a long ago history, and there's ample research that shows the forced sterilization was not just practiced... 4/
...within the particular frameworks of explicitly eugenic policies but also outside of them, and that especially those underhanded forms of forced sterilization did not end with the elimination of those official eugenic policies. 5/
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