Eugenics in the United States: Sterilizations That Erased Lives #hiddenhistory #medicalapartheid
From 1907 to the 1970s, over 60,000 people were sterilized under U.S. eugenics laws. But the burden wasn’t equal. Disabled women, especially those who were poor, were singled out. Black women in the South, Native women on reservations, and Latina women in cities like Los Angeles were targeted disproportionately. Eugenics treated poverty as a defect, […]