#forced sterilization

[intersectionalpraxis]

X, formerly known as Twitter post states: Israel Finance Minister says he agrees with every word in this column: that women in Gaza are part of the Hamas infrastructure (by having babies) and must be destroyed using severe epidemics (source: @ MacaesBruno). Originally posted: November 20th, 2023.

This is a genocidal mentality that advocates for the mass and forced sterilization of Palestinian women via their deaths... I am beyond enraged. For ANY feminist still being quiet while so many people (women, children, the elderly, disabled folks) continue to be disproportionately targeted in Gaza by imperial and settler-colonial military forces and powers... ya'll are also equally complicit.

Everything the IOF has done for decades now is truly one abomination after the other.

#feminist #feminism #palestine #social justice #freepalastine🇵🇸 #israel is an apartheid state #free gaza #free palestine #israel is committing genocide #intersectionality #womens rights #colonial violence #violence against women #settler colonialism #settler violence #forced sterilization #genocide

[magnetothemagnificent]

I am begging people to understand that reproductive rights is as much the right to become and remain pregnant as it is to terminate a pregnancy.

Encouraging all people capable of being pregnant to get their tubes tied or get a hysterectomy isn't the solution you think it is.

Most people who get abortions do so because they want to be able to get pregnant in the future.

Back-alley abortions often leave people unable to become pregnant again, even if they want to. Legal, safe abortion ensures that a person can terminate a pregnancy while still retaining the option and ability to become pregnant again.

PoC, disabled people, and trans and intersex people have historically been barred from the right to get pregnant and reproduce. These marginalized groups have faced sterilization and maternal mortality for a long time.

If you think reproductive justice is only about the right to *not* be pregnant, you are woefully misinformed.

Reproductive justice means people should be able to control their own bodies, whether it means ending or preventing a pregnancy, or becoming pregnant and remaining pregnant.

Reproductive justice means that healthcare providers should and must address the barriers and dangers PoC, disabled people, and trans and intersex people face when it comes to obstetrics and gynecology.

Reproductive justice means lowering the maternal mortality rate for black people in America.

Reproductive justice means not sterilizing disabled people and providing safe options for disabled people who want to become pregnant.

Reproductive justice means acknowledging that trans people may want to become pregnant and not mandating they be sterilized in order to legally transition.

Reproductive justice means not sterilizing intersex babies and children in the attempt to make them fit into a dyadic, binary sex.

Reproductive justice is not just about abortions.

#reproductive justice #roe v wade overturned #american politics #abortion #forced sterilization #eugenics #racism #healthcare #pregnancy #current events #ableism

[thatwitchybitchandco]

We don't talk enough about how forced sterilization of disabled people is legal in many states.

Disabled people deserve bodily autonomy as much as anyone else.

#disability #disabilities #actually disabled #bodily autonomy #forced sterilization #us politics #ableism #legal discrimination #discrimation #disabled #disabled pride month

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Senate committee studying a bill to establish a criminal offence with respect to sterilization procedures heard emotional testimony from a survivor of coerced sterilization on Thursday.

"It's like you wiped out a generation," Nicole Rabbit, a member of Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice, an organization for Indigenous women who are survivors of coerced and forced sterilization, told the committee in Ottawa.

Bill S-250 an Act to Amend the Criminal Code (sterilization procedures) would make forced and coerced sterilization punishable under the Criminal Code by up to 14 years in prison.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #bill s-250 #forced sterilization #coerced sterilization #sterilization #Indigenous #genocide #reproductive rights #reproductive health #reproductive justice #bodily autonomy #senate

[crippled-peeper]

just remembered a horrible conversation I had years ago where a ablebodied transmasc said “Ummm where are they forcibly sterilizing trans people??? I want to be forcibly sterilized” to me because they saw me talking about my fear of forced sterilization as a deformed disabled person. even when I think I’m surrounded by people who “get it” someone always ends up saying something fucking abhorrent to me and it sucks

#ableism #forced sterilization

[olowan-waphiya]

Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as young as 12, had a contraceptive device implanted in their womb - often without consent - as part of a Danish campaign to control Greenland's growing Inuit population in the 60s and 70s.

The Danish government has announced an independent investigation into this so-called "Coil Campaign". But the BBC has gathered accounts from women about recent involuntary contraception, amid growing calls for the investigation to go further.

#forced sterilization #inuit #greenland #coil campaign

[rapeculturerealities]

HIV and forced sterilisations: How four Kenyan women found justice

Four women living with HIV in Kenya have each been awarded $20,000 (£16,000) in damages for being sterilised without their informed consent. They have spoken to the BBC about their experiences.

The women fought a nine-year legal battle - and their names have been changed to protect their identities, which were not revealed during the case at the High Court.

"It has ruined my life," Penda told the BBC about the surgery she underwent shortly after having twins at the state-owned Pumwani Maternity Hospital in the capital, Nairobi.

The procedure is called a bilateral tubal ligation (BTL) - when a woman's fallopian tubes are cut, tied, burned, clipped or partly removed, closing them and preventing future pregnancies.

#btl #Bilateral tubal ligation #Kenya #forced sterilization #Hiv

[leaves-lilies-and-esther]

Just saw this and was horrified

More than 40 women have come forward according to the second article- some are facing retaliation (like deportation). There's also a whistleblower nurse named Ms. Wooten. It's been discovered that women have been complaining about this since 2018 to ICE but nothing was done.

#ICE #feminism #media #forced sterilization #radical feminism #liberal feminism #women's rights #Choice means none of this bullshit

[beserkerjewel]

For the last reblog, one huge problem I have with the reproductive justice movement (which, to be clear, I am very much in support of) is that too many people think that reproductive justice begins and ends with abortion, and refuse to understand that there’s so much more to it than that. Some of us also have to worry about being forcibly sterilized and/or being coerced into aborting very much wanted children because we are considered “undesirable” and unworthy of being parents, and I wish people would discuss that more often.

#Jewel gets personal #abortion #forced sterilization #reproductive justice

[cistematicchaos]

I genuinely hate people who run around acting like the history of the US government actively socially and systemically murdering and abusing disabled people is something of the past. 

Yes, your ER is doing it. Yes, your hospital is doing it. Yes, the psych wards are still doing it. Yes, people are still being sterilized. Yes, people are still being violently abused with little-to-no accountability or backlash. Yes, people are still being murdered for being “too disabled” or just “disabled” at all. Pretty much any and everything people list as a thing of “the past” happening to disabled people is still happening today.

Especially with COVID going around, you have got to be wild calling this shit stuff of the past. But by all means, keep regurgitating propaganda. Why not. It’s not as if our lives hang in the balance and quite possibly your eventual life. It’s not as if framing all of these things as evils of the US government’s “past” is dangerous and completely ridiculous. /s

#ableism #sanism #just saying bc #like #its so common? #i dont understand how ppl are even livin with themselves pretending it doesn't happen #disability #disabled #mad punk #cripple punk #systemic ableism #chaos is speaking #tw murder #abuse #medical abuse #forced sterilization

[haggishlyhagging]

When abortion is illegal, black women, Hispanic women, and poor women get slaughtered. Allowing the government to regulate the uterus—as in the Human Life Amendment—will directly preface an overt policy of forced sterilization. Forced sterilization cannot be explicit state policy until a measure like the Human Life Amendment is adopted: until abortion is absolutely reckoned murder legally and is punished as murder, so that the state is empowered literally to investigate the woman's womb, her menses, her discharges. Once every fertilized egg must be brought to term, what are we to do with all those poor, promiscuous, dumb sluts who keep having bastards? After all, doesn't the government have the right to force such women to stop having babies? isn't the government paying for them? aren't those women immoral, fucking around and having babies for the money? If every fertilized egg is going to be brought to term—under penalty of a murder charge for failing to discharge that obligation—isn't it best just to insist that women taking government money have their tubes tied? And doesn't this combination of illegal abortion—prohibited in a way never existing before, prohibited from conception—and forced sterilization finally meet the not-so-hidden agenda of welfare: doesn't it finally provide the state with a way to control—absolutely and effectively—the fertility of poor women? Enough poor women can be kept having enough babies to provide whatever cheap labor is essential; but the rest are expendable.

-Andrea Dworkin, Right Wing Women

#andrea dworkin #female oppression #forced birth #forced sterilization #misogyny #femicide

[intersectionalpraxis]

Oh wow, mass human experimentation on political prisoners done in secret, that sounds awfully familiar……,,

⚠️tw for disturbing images and content containing this subject matter on human experimentation: suicide, self harm, abuse, white supremacist violence, nazism, the holocaust⚠️

this is something that we all should not forget -and it is not the only country that has 'experimented' on human beings -for those who do not know the history of birth control and Puerto Rican women, the despicable "father" of gynecology, as well as the "Tuskegee Study," I highly recommending starting here, because so many racist/dehumanizing 'pursuits' have been done in the name of "science" and it's horrifying.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #settler violence #colonial violence #antiblackness #history #us imperialism #western imperialism #medicine #science #forced sterilization #womens rights #violence against women #tw graphic #tw abuse #tw violence #tw white supremacy #medical industry #crimes against humanity #human rights violations

[dramioneasks]

God of War - westxnorthwest - E, 61 chapters, Words: 186,924 - Ten years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the world has changed: unrest, rebellion, and dark plans looming on the horizon. The non-magical world has begun to take up arms against their wizard counterparts, trying to use their superior knowledge of technology, and their war-ready firepower, to stop them. - Missing Persons Case: Hermione J. Granger, Secretary for International Muggle-Magical Cooperation, Ministry of Magic Status: Unknown * Department of Magical Law Enforcement Person of Interest: Draco L. Malfoy, current President of Viper Security Group, suspected illicit activities done under the moniker ‘Ares’. Status: Not in custody - When Secretary Granger goes missing from her hotel room, the Aurors’ case quickly grows cold with no leads & no outward signs of foul play. Senior Auror Harry Potter is at a loss, wondering how he can expect to save his best friend, one of the most well-known people in the magical community. He’s down to his last option, a contact he prefers not to use. Draco Malfoy and the Viper Security Group are his last shot at saving Hermione. *** MCD TAG IS NOT D/Hr

#author: westxnorthwest #mystery #tw: violence #character death #gore #tw: torture #smut #legilimency #pansy #hermione: grey #draco: grey #animagus #blaise #ministry and politics #psychological trauma #hurt and comfort #ptsd #spying #kidnapping and imprisonment #progressive relationship #hermione's pov #draco's pov #other pov #hermione: ministry worker #missing #forced sterilization #magical supression #curses and spells #harry

[allthecanadianpolitics]

This story contains content that may be distressing to readers.

Author and activist Morningstar Mercredi is calling for the criminalization of forced and coerced sterilization, in the hopes that women — especially Indigenous, Métis and Inuit women — will never suffer the physical and mental trauma it inflicted upon her.

"I knew that lending my voice to my experience as a survivor was critical and important. Not only for my own process [but also] to let other survivors know that they can come forward. They are not alone," she told White Coat, Black Art host Dr. Brian Goldman.

When Mercredi was 14 years old and in her seventh month of pregnancy, she went to a hospital in Saskatoon after experiencing cramping and spotting. She ended up having a C-section.

What she didn't know, however, was that the surgeon also performed a tubal ligation, removing her left ovary and fallopian tube, without her knowledge or consent.

She didn't find out about it until a visit to a gynecologist decades later, when she was in a relationship and wanted to have children.

"This trauma was such that … I went into a catatonic state and had a nervous breakdown," said Mercredi, now 58, who tells her story in the 2021 book Sacred Bundles Unborn.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#Eugenics #forced sterilization #Indigenous #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #racism #First Nations #Metis #Inuit

[crippled-peeper]

doctors that forcibly sterilize indigenous ppl and disabled ppl deserve to go to jail for their crimes. I’m not content with their licensees just being revoked especially temporarily. they need to face actual justice and never practice medicine again

#forced sterilization

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