Pamela Merritt
The Sound of Silence: Where Is the Anti-Choice Outcry Over North Carolina's Forced Sterilization of Women of Color?
by Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check
January 25, 2012 - 7:21pm (Print)
From the early 1900s up until the 1970’s, over 30 states had formal eugenics programs, that enforced compulsory sterilization of individuals deemed to be “unfit” and “promiscuous.” States sterilized people that were disabled, poor, people of color, and immigrants. North Carolina had a particularly aggressive program. Yet the silence from anti-choice groups on the issue is deafening.
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In Missouri, Legislators Fail to Protect Women's Basic Rights, Undermining Justice for All
by Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check
July 20, 2011 - 6:21pm (Print)
In Missouri, anti-choice Republicans opted to place the Missouri state government between doctors and their patients, and a Democratic Governor signed the bill into law. Reproductive justice activists must share our disappointment with the Governor and state legislators who voted for the abortion restriction bills.
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