Anne Tolley’s next abhorrent idea: forced sterilization of poor people
















Emphasis mine; coercive restrictions on poor women’s reproduction all hers.

7 Replies to “Anne Tolley’s next abhorrent idea: forced sterilization of poor people”

  1. My mother often said she believed that some women should be forcibly sterilized. She said this OFTEN. It’s so weird to think about this now, as an adult with children of my own. What on earth would make her say such a thing at all, and in the presence of her daughter? I can’t ask her, because it’s no longer safe to have any contact with her. Which is telling, I suppose. (I didn’t know then that her views reflected frequent practice in the U.S. at the time and to this day, unfortunately.)

    1. It’s scary how throughout history whether you can choose to access sterilization, or have it forced on you, almost entirely comes down to how “undesirable” you are because of your class, race, or background.

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