For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform

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4. Protest against forced sterilization, ca. 1971

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  [Protest signs]

  Sterilization of mothers violates U.N. charter Art. 25, sec. I & II vote no house bill 20

  $5500 or fight! Vote yes!! State bills 9 & 13

  Close

Women of color activists protest against forced sterilization, ca. 1971

Courtesy Kevin Begos and Southern Conference Educational Fund

Women of color activists combined feminist and antiracist analyses to develop a more inclusive definition of reproductive rights, arguing not only for rights to abortion and birth control, but also for the right to be free from forced sterilization.