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Should Legal Sterilization Be Required for Walfare Receipients With More than one Child

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Should Legal Sterilization Be Required for Welfare Recipients

With More than one Child

Introduction

Sterilization is still used in several states as a means of reducing the number of welfare recipient by making sterilization a condition for medical care to continue to receive welfare payments and even requirements lot parole from prison Hospital records in Aiken , South Carolina revealed over one-third of the welfare mothers who had babies under Medicaid were required to undergo sterilization (Wolf 1996 38 Sterilization

was the policy of the counts three obstetricians who told the welfare mothers they would have to agree to sterilization before the doctors would deliver their babies (Williams 2007 87 . The records show that 18 welfare mothers had been sterilized during the first six months of the year and of these , 17 were black mothers (Wallace and Ferrante 2005 76 . In this study , the primary subject resides in the pro-sterilization perspective wherein the issue revolves on the positive implications of sterilization . By late 1982 , sterilization again became the solution of choice , but this time a truly massive rural campaign was envisioned (Wolf 1996 39 . There were several reasons for this . First rural birthrates remained unacceptably high and were climbing . Second while the overall number of couples willing to sign a one-child certificate continued to show an increase nationwide , in some areas the certificate rate among the rural populace was declining (Williams 2007 87

Discussion

Many middle-class white feminists cast motherhood and the home as the cornerstone of their oppression and saw birth control their ticket to freedom . Efforts to limit childbearing , such as contraception and abortion ) dominated the agenda of the mainstream women 's movement (Wallace and Ferrante 2005 76 . Many women of color , on the other hand had for generations struggled for the right to raise their own children (Williams 2007 89 . Under slavery , slave masters often forcibly separated black children from their parents . At the turn of the century social reformers launched campaigns to limit the fertility of the so-called lower-races ' As a result , many African American men and women had historically identified birth control with the eugenics movement (Valk 2008 132 . Attempts in the 1930s and 1940s to introduce birth control in the black community were unsuccessful because of fears that such methods would be used as a form of genocide (Wallace and Ferrante 2005 76

One of the earliest examples of sterilization advantage reside in the notes that the state 's interest in limiting the growth of the Black population coincided with the expansion of post-World War II welfare provisions that have allowed many African-Americans to leave exploitative jobs . As a result , the growing unemployment rare among people of color means that non-white America is no longer simply a reservoir of cheap Labor it is therefore considered surplus population (Williams 2007 89 . One recently declassified federal document , National Security Study Memorandum 200 , revealed that even in 1976 the United States government regarded the growth of the non-white population as...

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