sterilization
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New Year, New Babies? Nick Cannon Hilariously Shirks Around Vasectomy Talk Over Holiday Weekend
The Wild’n Out host and actor recently welcomed his 12th child back in mid-December.
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California to Pay Reparations to Victims of Forced Sterilization in State Prisons
The nation known as the ‘land of the free’ once had a sanctioned eugenics program that inspired Nazi Germany. Imagine that.
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The Wounded Explaining the Wound: The Forced Sterilization of Women of Color Is No Small Matter
With things happening so fast in the world around us, the news cycle feels like a whirlwind moving from story to story overnight. Even reports as disturbing as allegations of mass hysterectomies in ICE detention camps disappeared from the national conversation as quickly as they came—though it could be argued that that aligns with a…
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Tennessee Judge Who Offered Freedom in Exchange for Sterilization Receives Mild Reprimand
A Tennessee judge who drew widespread condemnation this past summer for offering vasectomies in exchange for lighter jail sentences has been formally reprimanded. Judge Sam Benningfield of White County told repeat drug offenders in his court that he would cut their sentences by 30 days if they would sign up for sterilization. For male inmates,…