[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
Here they are. I felt that it would be better to have those interested do a websearch, 'cause I didn't want my sources to be attacked as overly left-leaning or feminist. Plus, I originally read about the case in one of my Female Sexuality books, and I couldn't find it (I found it now). Here are two links in addition to Peaches-n-Cream's, from two (I feel) reputable sources.


Summary of the Supreme Court Case from Georgetown Law

From Houghton-Mifflin (textbook publishers)

I originally learned of the story from Angela Davis's Women, Race and Class. She discusses the early birth control movement in general, then she goes into the forced sterilization. Of course, I'm not using this as my sole source of information about it. I consider Georgetown Law, a major textbook maker, and the Harvard School of Public Health pretty impartial sources.

Regardless of your political views, forcing tubal ligations on TEENAGERS (one of the sisters was 12!) should be viewed as SICK, especially when they deliberately hoodwinked the mother into believing it was "just a shot." Each time something like this happens, it pushes us closer to eugenics. And you know who practiced eugenics.

Thanks for the links. I took many women's studies classes, but I don't remember learning of this story.