[yanowitz]

This is horrific. I immediately thought of Puerto Rico, where women were forcibly sterilized for decades (until the 1970s), often after giving birth.

(This is part of the importance of talking about reproductive rights, not just abortion rights—the right to control one’s body to have or not to have a baby should be a fundamental human right.)

https://uwm.edu/clacs/eugenics-and-reproductive-coercion-in-...

[MandieD]

Many of the same US states that are currently eagerly restricting abortion rights, and are even casting covetous eyes towards birth control, had loads of forced sterilizations in previous decades.

As one of our marching calls goes, “Not the church, and not the state, will tell us how to procreate!”