| We are lucky to have a choice about our
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| | Sexism
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| birth control options. Some people,
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| | As the case of Carrie Bell demonstrates,
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| world-wide, have not been given that
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| | forced sterilizations were often
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| choice. Forced sterilizations have been
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| | performed on women for unjust reasons.
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| performed in the United States and Canada
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| | Whereas men were allowed to be sexually
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| as well as globally. Find out why these
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| | promiscuous (and were often encouraged to
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| atrocities were committed, and learn
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| | be), women were meant to be chaste.
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| about your contraceptive rights.
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| | Having children out of wedlock could lead
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| Eugenics
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| | to sterilization. Some women were
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| Eugenics is the practice of trying to
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| | sterilized without their knowledge of it.
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| make the human species better. This is
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| | Many of the women who were forcibly
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| the bid to build a faster, smarter, and
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| | sterilized were barely women at all,
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| better human. Many sterilization
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| | being often only 14, or even younger.
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| programs, including the programs in
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| | Racism
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| numerous American states, were created to
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| | In many states and provinces, racism was
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| improve the gene pool. These forced
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| | a motivating factor in compulsory
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| sterilizations focused on mentally
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| | sterilizations. In North Carolina, for
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| disabled people, or people with physical
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| | instance, many black women were
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| disabilities, such as being blind.
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| | sterilized when they went in to give
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| Timeline
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| | birth to their babies. In Alberta,
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| In 1897, Michigan became the first state
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| | eugenics was allegedly being used to
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| bring up forced sterilization
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| | prevent further babies being born with
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| legislature. This legislature did not
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| | mental or physical disabilities. However,
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| pass; nor did Pennsylvania's attempts a
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| | an overly large proportion of Métis
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| few years later. The first state to
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| | women were sterilized. The Métis people
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| introduce sterilization laws was Indiana,
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| | are an aboriginal people, who have a
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| in 1907; Washington and California
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| | heritage of First Nations mixed with
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| followed suit in 1907. In 1927 the famed
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| | European settlers. It is possible that
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| sterilization case Buck v. Bell was heard
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| | the government was concerned because they
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| in the supreme courts, which legalized
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| | represented miscegenation, that is, the
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| forced sterilizations, and began the age
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| | mixing of racial genes.
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| of the most forced sterilizations. In
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| | Poverty
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| 1942 the case Skinner v. Oklahoma ruled
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| | Just as gender and race are factors in
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| that you cannot sterilize someone as a
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| | forced sterilizations, socioeconomic
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| punishment, which partially curtailed
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| | status is also a factor. Often, gender,
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| forced sterilizations. By 1963, most
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| | race, and class were all combined. It was
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| states had taken sterilization laws out
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| | more often than not the black people who
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| of use, though many of them remained in
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| | were poor, and it was often the black
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| the law books for longer: North Carolina
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| | poor women who were sterilized against
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| did not rescind their laws until 1974.
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| | their wills. Some argued that sterilizing
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| Roughly 70,000 Americans were sterilized
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| | poor people was a blessing because it
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| against their will.
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| | allowed a family to take care of the
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| Buck v. Bell
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| | children they already had.
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| In 1924 Virginia passed a law that stated
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| | Your Rights
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| that all mentally disabled individuals
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| | You have a right to not be sterilized
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| had to be sterilized for eugenic reasons.
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| | without your consent. No matter of
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| In 1927, Carrie Bell was ordered to be
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| | physical or mental disabilities, nobody
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| sterilized. Justice Oliver Wendell
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| | in Canada or the United States is legally
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| Holmes, Jr. explained that the sanctity
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| | allowed to be sterilized without consent.
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| of the gene pool outweighed one person's
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| | You can, however, choose to use
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| physical rights. The reason for
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| | sterilization for your method of birth
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| sterilizing Carrie was that she was
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| | control. Birth control remains in your
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| allegedly mentally slower and had a
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| | hands, and not the governments'. Learn
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| history of prostitution. Current
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| | more about your birth control options to
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| scholarship has demonstrated that Carrie
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| | prevent unwanted pregnancies and to use
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| was probably sterilized because of her
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| | your power of choice.
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| and her mother's promiscuous ways.
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