Forced Sterilizations in America

Recent report from Georgia ICE facility shows this shameful eugenics tactic is still being employed

Jay Sizemore
Parlor Tricks

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A bombshell report hit the airwaves today detailing shocking events that have allegedly been taking place at an ICE detention center in Georgia. A whistleblower account from a nurse, identified as Dawn Wooten, claims that immigrants in the facility where she works have been subjected to horrific levels of medical neglect, and that the women there are routinely being given hysterectomies while being misinformed about the procedures they are agreeing to. The Intercept reported that Wooten was reprimanded and demoted for attempting to alert people about these events. All of this information should appall you.

If true, this would amount to a practice of forced sterilization, a eugenics method of controlling “undesirable” populations that sadly the United States has a disturbing history with. When people think of eugenics, they typically associate it with Nazi Germany, not America. But the truth is America adopted the process and used it for decades to sterilize thousands upon thousands of minority and immigrant men and women, along with thousands of people deemed mentally deficient or ill. It’s supposed to have been made illegal since the 1980’s, but some states have since continued to find loopholes to…

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Jay Sizemore
Parlor Tricks

Provocative truth teller, author of APNEA & Ignore the Dead. Cat dad. Dog dad. Husband. Currently working from Portland, Oregon. Learn more at: Jaysizemore.com.