The ideology of population control for the greater good is deeply
embedded in U.S. policy,explainedDorothy Roberts, law and sociology
professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of/Killing the
Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty/
<https://bookshop.org/a/1620/9780679758693>, speaking by phone this week
after the ICE story broke. “To discourage childbearing by people who are
receiving government public assistance—that’s written into laws in many
states.” Efforts to expand women’s reproductive choices have been
entangled, too, with this ideology. “The origins of the movement for
birth control is both a feminist movement and a eugenicist movement, and
that’s going on in the 1920s and ’30s, and was only discredited after
the Nazi exterminations and their regime of eugenics.” But in the United
States, the eugenics project goes back further—“built on top of the
enslavement of African people and the denial of their reproductive
autonomy altogether.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/159390/immigration-detention-hysterectomy-forced-sterilization
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