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Science and Philosophy

Sep 20, 2020

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Racist eugenics once again: forced sterilizations of immigrant women

Immigrant women at an ICE detention facility have been subject to forced sterilization

Poster art for a 1971 “Stop forced sterilization” rally in San Francisco. (Rachael Romero/San Francisco Poster Brigade via Library of Congress)

It is a perfect storm combining many issues that progressives care about: racism, eugenics, reproductive rights, immigrant rights, private detention facilities, retaliation against whistleblowers and…

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Racist eugenics once again: forced sterilizations of immigrant women

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