US EditionNew Mexico launches investigation of forced sterilization of Native American women
New Mexico will investigate the coerced sterilization of over 3,400 women by the Indian Health Service in the 1970s, aiming for accountability and survivor healing.
- New Mexico is set to investigate the troubling history and lasting harm of forced sterilizations of Native American women by the Indian Health Service in the 1970s.
- The New Mexico Legislature approved a measure for state departments to examine the scope and impact of these coerced sterilizations on women of color.
- Jean Whitehorse, a Native American woman, shares her experience of being sterilized without full consent after an emergency surgery in 1972 at age 22.
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Why did the U.S. government sterilize thousands of Native American women in the 1970s? New Mexico is investigating
In the 1970s, the U.S. agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent, depriving them of the opportunity to start or grow families. Decades later, the state of New Mexico is set to investigate that troubling history and its lasting harm. New Mexico legislators approved a measure this week to have the state Indian Affairs Department and the Commission on the Status of Wom…
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New Mexico launches investigation of forced sterilization of Native American women
In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent.
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By Bella Davis, New Mexico In Depth As she was being sedated for a procedure following a miscarriage many years ago, Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero was given several forms to sign. Her husband, she says, noticed a box that had been checked on one of the forms. It was for a hysterectomy, which she wasn’t scheduled […]
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