When reading chapter 8 of Medical Apartheid there is a very clear parallel when we take a look at what is happening at our border. They are giving women at the border forced hysterectomies, they go to the doctor for a completely unrelated reason but leave without their uterus. The difference between the two situations is that when it was originally done, they were planning on having it as a punishment for unwed mothers as a punishment for having premarital sex. Now it seems like these forced hysterectomies are just eugenics. Even the President of the United States has endorsed this “racehorse theory” which idealized selective breeding that can improve a county’s performance. It’s not a secrete that the only thing the current President has done effectively divides this country and his actions only promote his mostly white base to be more outward in their white supremacy.
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