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We Have to Talk About the Ugly History of Eugenics and Medical Racism

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Our Ugly History of Eugenics and Gynecological Medical Abuses of Marginalized People I was so sick to my stomach when I heard that migrant women were being sterilized and/or assaulted by a gynecologist at private prison LaSalle Corrections’ Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia that I could only read headlines of the story for a week.

I just could not take it. For Black women like myself, this is reminiscent of Dr. J. Marion Sims. He was a gynecologist in the 1840s who performed experimental surgeries on Black enslaved women without anesthesia and without their consent.

Or the time of eugenics, when people of color among others were systematically sterilized. Has nothing changed? Are women of color still pawns in a white man’s world?

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