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Demanding the Right to Reproduce: Voluntary and Forced Sterilization in America

By Mandy Van Deven, RH Reality Check

August 5, 2009 - 7:00am

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Rebecca Kluchin's new book, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980, explores a thirty year period of US history in which eugenic and neo-eugenic ideas were used to justify forced, coerced, and freely chosen sterilization.

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