United States Forced Sterilization Program of Black, Native and Puerto Rican Women
Eugenics is the theory that the human race can influence its own development through selective breeding.
And for decades, a nationwide eugenics program sterilized some 60,000 Americans against their will.
The movement specifically targeted the poor and minorities.
According to the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, at one time, 31 states in the U.S. had government-run eugenics programs. In North Carolina, close to 8,000 men, women, and children -- mostly poor, black, disabled and uneducated -- were forcibly sterilized from 1929 to 1974.
"The answers that they're giving me, I don't like them because when I ask them the same question, 'Why?' their response is because I was 'feeble minded,'" Riddick explained.
In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed aspects of the eugenics movement. On May 2, 1927, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote:
"It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
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Eugenics is the theory that the human race can influence its own development through selective breeding.
And for decades, a nationwide eugenics program sterilized some 60,000 Americans against their will.
The movement specifically targeted the poor and minorities.
According to the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, at one time, 31 states in the U.S. had government-run eugenics programs. In North Carolina, close to 8,000 men, women, and children -- mostly poor, black, disabled and uneducated -- were forcibly sterilized from 1929 to 1974.
"The answers that they're giving me, I don't like them because when I ask them the same question, 'Why?' their response is because I was 'feeble minded,'" Riddick explained.
In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed aspects of the eugenics movement. On May 2, 1927, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote:
"It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
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Doctors Treat Black Patients Worse than their White Counterparts
On Monday, the researchers said they found that pediatricians who preferred whites to blacks treated white patients better than blacks when it came to pain management. "We're talking about subtle, unconscious attitudes that are pervasive in society," said Janice Sabin, a UW research assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education. Published last week in the American Journal of Public Health, the study used the Implicit AssociationTest, a famous psychological tool created by a UW professor nearly 15 years ago to measure unconscious bias. The 2008 study found that 70 percent of doctors who took the racial-bias test had a preference for whites to blacks. The most recent study found that the pediatricians also had the same bias, but a much weaker one, Sabin said Monday. Read More... Sterilization Continues Today
California has a long-history of eugenics, and it is easy to condemn the eugenics laws that the Golden State passed in 1909 and implemented until 1952. These sterilizations were visited upon “the unfit” in mental hospitals, upon the uneducated, and upon non-white minorities in disproportionately high numbers. Who would now condone the coercive and forcible sterilization—with state approval—of over 20,000 men and women? Yet despite the unanimous modern condemnation, non-consensual sterilization of those deemed “unfit” for the benefit of “the common good” continues to occur. A closer look at how such an evil came to be permitted in the past can perhaps help to explain why such eugenic crimes continue to exist in the present day. Read More... The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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Black Women Targeted With Eugenics Drug
(Depo Provera) It has been on the U.S. drug market since the early 1990s, and population control organizations like Planned Parenthood continue to push it heavily on black women and other ethnic minorities as a form of contraception. But the injectable contraceptive drug Depo-Provera, manufactured by Pfizer, has an extensive track record of causing serious harm to women, including its tendency to trigger the development of cancer. This warning clearly states that women who receive Depo-Provera could develop significant and irreversible bone mineral density loss, for instance. The drug can also lead to blood clots in arms, legs, lungs and eyes and may also cause stroke, bleeding irregularities, weight gain, ectopic pregnancy and delayed return to fertility. In some cases, women who get jabbed with Depo-Provera become permanently sterile. Read More... More Info... Bayer Knowingly Gave HIV Contaminated Blood Products to Haemophiliacs
Bayer just paid "tens of millions" of dollars to end a three-decade long scandal in which the company sold HIV-contaminated blood products to haemophiliacs, thousands of whom later died of AIDS. Ironically, Bayer's new haemophilia iPhone app got some coverage, as did Bayer's haemophilia research grant to the University of Florida. But you have to pick through the French and Italian news media to find out that Bayer is finally writing checks to people who got AIDS because, in the 1980s, the Cutter Biological unit of Bayer ignored federal law to recruit prisoners, intravenous drug users, and high-risk gay men as donors of the blood Cutter then used to make Factor VIII and IX, the clotting product that haemophiliacs need in order to not bleed to death. In 1997 Bayer paid €300 million into a compensation fund for haemophiliacs with HIV. About 20,000 patients contracted HIV from the blood. Read More... Chemical and drug maker Bayer AG said Thursday it acted "responsibly, ethically and humanely" during the 1980s in selling a blood-clotting product that stopped potentially fatal bleeding in hemophiliacs but was linked to the risk of HIV infection. Read More Here... lead researcher for gardisil and cervarix knew that the drugs were unsafe for humans |
For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,” their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all.
The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.” By the end of the experiment, 28 of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis. To ensure that the men would show up for a painful and potentially dangerous spinal tap, the PHS doctors misled them with a letter full of promotional hype: “Last Chance for Special Free Treatment.” The fact that autopsies would eventually be required was also concealed. As a doctor explained, “If the colored population becomes aware that accepting free hospital care means a post-mortem, every darky will leave Macon County...” Even the Surgeon General of the United States participated in enticing the men to remain in the experiment, sending them certificates of appreciation after 25 years in the study. |
$1.2 Mil to Push Gardasil Among Poor Minority Girls
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