Lost Choices

Lost Choices
"Over the past century, forced sterilization was practiced in many states. In North Carolina, authorities sterilized poor and disabled people into the 1970’s. Last week, the Foundation for Justice for Sterilization Victims in North Carolina gathered testimony from victims. A task force will soon decide on compensation for an estimated 7,600 people who lost the ability to have children. W.C. Lynch was sterilized by the state, and today he tells his story."

Dionne Bensonsmith, Framing Discourses of Reproductive Health and Public Policy

Video from Claremont Graduate University SPE.

Tuesday Lunch Talk Series 4-26-11: Dionne Bensonsmith

"Framing the Discourse: Black Women's Reproductive Health and Policy Change After the 2008 NIH Summit on Health Disparities"

http://vimeo.com/22925234

Dionne Bensonsmith: Race, Choice & Reproductive Health in the Age of Health Care Reform

Podcast from Scripps College.

This talk addresses recent proposals and amendments in the Obama Health Care Plan and their potential effects on reproductive choice — specifically among women of color.

http://media.scrippscollege.edu/scrippscasts/dionne-bensonsmith-race-choice-and-reproductive-health-in-the-age-of-health-care-reform

Black Women's Maternal Risks Go Unquestioned | Womens eNews

Black Women's Maternal Risks Go Unquestioned | Womens eNews

Black Women Re-Defining Agency, Organizing for Reproductive Justice

http://inciteblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/black-women-re-defining-agency-organizing-for-reproductive-justice/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign#incite

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MARCH 3, 2011

NYC's High Maternal Deaths Defy Usual Explanations | Womens eNews

NYC's High Maternal Deaths Defy Usual Explanations | Womens eNews

Harris-Perry on hysterectomy for fibroids, The Root (2008)

Farewell to My Uterus

A personal account of a relationship between a woman and her reproductive organ.

• By: Melissa Harris-Lacewell | Posted: June 30, 2008 at 12:00 AM