Federally funded large scale sterilization programs have historically been carried out under the guise of “population control” programs. They assume that poverty and hunger are products of over-population rather than unequal resource distribution. Therefore, the solution is focused on shrinking poor populations instead of sharing wealth and resources. While not every case uses force, government programs tend to subsidize, pay for, or use sterilization as a tool to get their target populations to behave in certain ways. These populations are nearly always Black, Latino, or Native American and already are victims of unjust government programs such as the welfare and prison systems.
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