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CURRENT OPINION IN OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
卷 26, 期 6, 页码 539-544出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0000000000000121
关键词
family planning; reproductive justice; sterilization; stratified reproduction
资金
- Greenwall Foundation's Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics
Purpose of review There is a growing clinical consensus that Medicaid sterilization consent protections should be revisited because they impede desired care for many women. Here, we consider the broad social and ideological contexts for past sterilization abuses, beyond informed consent. Recent findings Throughout the US history, the fertility and childbearing of poor women and women of color were not valued equally to those of affluent white women. This is evident in a range of practices and policies, including black women's treatment during slavery, removal of Native children to off-reservation boarding schools and coercive sterilizations of poor white women and women of color. Thus, reproductive experiences throughout the US history were stratified. This ideology of stratified reproduction persists today in social welfare programs, drug policy and programs promoting long-acting reversible contraception. Summary At their core, sterilization abuses reflected an ideology of stratified reproduction, in which some women's fertility was devalued compared to other women's fertility. Revisiting Medicaid sterilization regulations must therefore put issues of race, ethnicity, class, power and resources not just informed consent at the center of analyses.
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