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Cake day: February 14th, 2025

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  • it wasn’t merely “unwanted gynecological procedures,” and given the actual crimes committed in that facility, this article represents an unacceptably euphemized version of events. ctrl+f forced sterilization.

    In 2020, forced sterilizations at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Ocilla, Georgia amassed national attention. [163] Over 50 people detained at the ICE facility, all lower-income immigrant women with minimal understanding of the English language, stated they were pushed to undergo or did undergo medically unnecessary gynecological surgeries including hysterectomies. A Senate briefing on this subject emphasized the “uniform absence of truly informed consent” due in part to language barriers and in part to lack of information provided. [164]

    america has a long history of eugenics, of which this is just one of the more recent examples we know about.