Sterilization Racism And Pan-Ethnic Disparities Of The Past Decade: The Continued Encroachment ...

Sterilization Racism And Pan-Ethnic Disparities Of The Past Decade: The Continued Encroachment On Reproductive Rights Thomas W. Volscho, 2010 In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. In the late 1960s and through the 1970s, reports of coercive, involuntary, and otherwise nonconsenting sterilizations of American Indian, African American, Mexican, and Puerto Rican origin women began surfacing in the United States.1 These revelations came at a time of intense civil rights...

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