Sterilization

A History of Weaponized Language

Justin Strawhand | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Sterilization, Weaponized Language, Language, Nazis, Indus Civilization, Iq Tests, Eugenics, Culture News

What of legacy? Did the violent effects of eugenically-charged language die with the discrediting of the eugenics movement, or do they continue, protected by the shroud of historical forgetfulness? There are hints.

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President Obama: Render Unto God the Things that Are God's

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 05.03.2012

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Jesus is often quoted for his saying to "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's." The rest of the quote could be a message to the Obama Administration: "Render unto God the things that are God's."

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Animal Welfare Groups Target Feral Cats For Sterilization

AP | By SUE MANNING | Posted 02.14.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- Cat owners have done a good job spaying and neutering their pets. The big issue now when it comes to felines is population control of f...

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"Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough"

Bennett L. Gershman | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Eugenics, Supreme Court, Sterilization, Abortion, Immigration, Eugenics Movement, Forced Sterilization, Anti-Choice, Anti-Choice Movement, Politics News

Is there any connection between the eugenics movement and the anti-choice movement? Forcing a woman to give birth -- which the anti-choice movement effectively requires -- really is not that different conceptually from preventing her from giving birth.

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WATCH: Local Activists Plead With Sweden To Amend Transgender Sterilization Law

Posted 01.21.2012

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International human rights activists have decried Sweden's decision not to update a "barbaric" law that requires all transgender people to become ster...

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Making Things Right, Many Years Later

Michael Waterstone | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: North Carolina, Eugenics, Sterilization, Discrimination, Forced Sterilization, Politics News

Today, the idea of the state medically taking away someone's right to procreate against their will seems impossible. But from the 1930s to the late 1970s, North Carolina used eugenics to justify mandatory sterilization of people with mental disabilities, criminals and other undesirables.

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Dalai Lama Advisor, Blake Kerr, Testifies in Trial Accusing Chinese of Genocide in Tibet

Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 03.07.2012

As a tourist in Lhasa 24 years ago, Blake Kerr witnessed Chinese soldiers and police massacring unarmed Tibetans, inspiring him to begin documenting the underside of China's military occupation of Tibet.

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The Other Side of Reproductive Justice: How Sterilization and Other Forms of Coercion Are Used Against "Unworthy" Parents

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Sterilization, Roma, Forced Sterilization, Reproductive Rights, LGBT Rights, Discrimination, Parenting, Peru-Forced-Sterilization, Politics News

Coerced sterilization and castration are in many ways no different from other limitations on individual reproductive choice: they violate a number of fundamental rights, including the rights to health, privacy, and physical integrity.

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GlobalPost Reports: The Terror Of Forced Sterilization For Transgender People

Posted 01.02.2012

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By Ann Tornkvist STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Aleksa Lundberg remembers being four years old and standing by the kindergarten's wading pool. The tea...

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N.C. Tries To Make Amends For Sterilizations

AP | By RENEE ELDER and TOM BREEN | Posted 08.19.2011

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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Nearly 35 years after ending the country's most active post-war sterilization program, North Carolina is the only state trying to mak...

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'Psychological Slavery'? A Look Inside California Women's Prisons

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Gottesdiener | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, California Female Inmates, Women's Rights, Sterilization, Women's Health Care, California Prisons, California Women's Prisons, Prisons, Women's Prisons, Los Angeles News

Over the course of 12 years, former inmate Beverly Henry watched hundreds of untreated women die in the Central California Women’s Facility, a spraw...

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HIV-Positive Chilean Mothers Claim To Be Forcibly Sterilized, Abused In Hospitals (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

As nations around the world commemorate World AIDS Day, a group of HIV-positive women in Chile has come forward with more sobering news, claiming they...

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Astoria Characters: The Down-to-Earth Traveling Salesman

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the living room, kneeling against the ruby red wall, is a Thai goddess. Above her head, in golden frames that match the trim of her royal raiment, are three Chilean oil paintings.

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Is Sterilization The Answer To India's Overpopulation Problem?

GlobalPost | Jason Overdorf | Posted 05.25.2011

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India has fallen behind in the race to meet the Millennium Development Goals for reducing its birth rate by 2015. Only about half of India's 26 states...

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Namibian Women With HIV Sue Government Over Forced Sterilization

AP | PATIENCE NYANGOVE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WINDHOEK, Namibia — Supporters of three HIV-positive women in Namibia who say they were sterilized without their consent held protests to suppor...

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What For Sterilization Victims?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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North Carolina has named an executive director of the N. C. Justice for Victims of Sterilization Foundation, Charmaine Fuller Cooper. Upon her nominat...

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Pope vs. Doctors: How New Vatican Orthodoxy Undermines Medical Ethics and Imperils Your Health

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

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By challenging this longstanding system of benign neglect, bishops and zealots may believe they will achieve ideological purity. What they are actually doing is jeopardizing Catholic hospitals and public health.

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Namibia Women Face Forced Sterilization

Priti Patel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Sterilization, Lac, Forced Sterilization, Hiv, Namibia, Aids, ICW-Nambia, World News

Advocacy groups in Namibia have documented the stories of dozens of HIV-positive women who were sterilized against their will in public hospitals.

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Ten Inevitable Tragic Consequences of National Health Care

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Sterilization, Peter-Breggin, Public Option, Rationing Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Euthanasia, Health Care, Politics News

With the looming probability of a "public option" as a prelude to full-blown national health care, it's important examine the most threatening and eve...

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