Madres: The Eugenics Movement in the United States pt. II

Abi introduces the topic before breaking down early legislation that supported the eugenics movement.  Buck v Bell went to the Supreme Court on the basis that individuals with criminal history currently detained may be sterilized so as not to contribute low-IQ criminals to society. Doctors soon saw the benefits of selecting who may reproduce and moved onto the racial agenda. Statements are read from witnesses who saw the mistreatment of Mexican American women during child labor.  The whistleblower, nurse Dawn Wooten, described how forced hysterectomies would occur with non-English speaking patients. Other witnesses also described how doctors manipulated women. Abi reads statements from detained immigrants from the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. Sources: https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/immigration-detention-and-coerced-sterilization-history-tragically-repeats-itself https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/buck-v-bell-1927 https://unidosus.org/blog/2021/12/16/the-long-history-of-forced-sterilization-of-latinas/ https://www.justsecurity.org/72587/the-u-s-bears-international-responsibility-for-forced-sterilization-of-women-in-ice-detention/ https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/OIG-ICDC-Complaint-1.pdf The women go on to discuss sex crimes in the medical field. At 53:00 Abi shares the traumatic case of the Brazilian doctor who SA’d his patients as they were undergoing a c-section with others just feet away from him in the operating room.  Intensely unsettling attack on a child mentioned at 55:25 where a 6-year-old girl was assaulted by classmates with the teacher present: https://texasscorecard.com/local/parents-demand-answers-for-alleged-sexual-assault-of-6-year-old-girl-in-plainview-isd/ Daniela shares how her family was affected by events in the past. The episode closes with updates on immigrant policies in the state of Florida.