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Armstrong, Lisa. “Sterilized by the State.” Essence, vol. 42, no. 12, Essence Communications,
Lisa Armstrong examines how eugenics laws and movements have played a role in the
affiliated with committing involuntary sterilization on 7,600 people, those being racial
minorities and immigrants. Armstrong considers the Eugenicists belief that the only way
the human race can improve is if those that were classified as poor, alcoholics or disabled
were prevented from having children. She explains the threats and manipulation that the
Eugenic board has used against women of color and immigrant women, by denying
health care and welfare benefits and grouping them as feebleminded, illiterate, and
retarded. She provides cases of forced sterilization along with the fight for justice against
these wrongful acts, with a result of compensation from the state. The author, Lisa
Armstrong, is a journalist who has reported from several countries. She’s written multiple
investigative journals about forced sterilization in the U.S, how poor mental health care
has increased suicides in state prisons, and the rapes in the camps in Haiti. She is aware
of the many different injustices that many immigrants, people of color, poor people,
unmarried mothers, and disabled individuals face. She grew up in Nairobi, Kenya faced
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with many humanitarian issues she decided to travel to different countries to write stories
CENTERS.” The American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, vol.
reproductive coercion in detention in the U.S. She then goes into further detail about the
current practices in detention centers and the standard reproductive rights and freedoms
for incarcerated and detained individuals. Boehm argues that since forced sterilization
constitutes punishment that lawmakers must analyze it under the 8th amendment, which
prohibits excessive bails and fines including cruel and unusual punishment. This further
demonstrates that involuntary sterilization ties with eugenics. The author recommends a
inherently penal and that any immigrant that falls victim should be protected under the
8th amendment. Boehm is a reproductive justice advocate interested in human rights and
civil rights law which focuses on the intersection of gender, race, and the environment.
She is a community lawyer with the Systemic Advocacy & Law Reform Unit, at the
Davis, Charles. “ICE Said to Transfer Women out of Detention Center That Became Infamous
In this article, Charles Davis takes a deeper look into the Irwin County Detention Center
in Georgia. This center was under congressional investigation in 2020 after a nurse at a
privately-run facility reported that women were being sterilized without their consent.
There have been so many cases, that even the Mexican government confirmed that one of
its citizens had been a victim of unnecessary gynecological procedure while detained
there. Davis describes that dozens of women have been taking part in a class-action
lawsuit against the gynecologist who performed these unapproved surgeries in which
some cases were tied with sexual assault. Immigrant women were released from that
Detention Center into a new one 140 miles away which has a reputation for medical
neglect and not hosting women for decades. Now a new organization called the Detention
Watch Network that advocates for shutting down all detention centers and releasing all
private detentions. Davis is a journalist who has reported on life along the US-Mexico
border, the impact of the war on drugs in Nicaragua, the rise of socially conscious
tourism in Ecuador, and international intrigue in Venezuela. He has won an award at the
Southern California Journalism Awards in 2019, on his coverage of labor violations in the
entertainment industry.
Davis, Sabrina. “Unrepeatable Harms: Forced Sterilization at ICE Detention Centers.” Human
In this book, Sabrina Davis shines a light on how coerced sterilization against immigrant
women is a part of a much broader systemic medical crisis in detention centers. That
includes a lack of consent, accessibility to treatment, and at times, death. Davis believes
violating its obligations under the Convention Against Torture and Nelson Mandela
Rules. The United States has had a history of forced sterilization to control the
“undesirable population” which at that time was non-white, physically disabled, and
mentally ill individuals. The author unveils the ignorance that the U.S holds by
sanctioning China for using forced sterilization against Uyghur people even though they
women. She argues that with the evidence of previous coercion, the United States needs
to recognize their obligation under the Rules and must reaffirm and strengthen its
obligations under the Convention against Torture. Both which directly prohibit the
horrific acts that occurred at these detention centers, and that the U.S. must be held liable
for its violations of these international instruments. Davis is currently a third year law
student at Washington College of Law focusing in both civil right and criminal defense
work. She serves as the Dean's Fellow for the Office of the Public Interest, as well as the
Publications Editor for the Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law.
This translation of the book describes the increased cases in forced surgeries against
Mexican women. Many suffered irregular surgery at the Irwin Detention Center in
Georgia, where many whistleblowers have expressed their concern about doctors creating
these heinous acts on immigrants. These women have to deal with agonizing pain, such
as the removal of their uterus, hysterectomy, and other reproductive organs. The author
implies that the ICE detention centers use detainees for experimental procedures. They
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go further into the stating that thousands of people try to cross the southern U.S. border
each year, many trying to flee the conflict or poverty happening in Central America.
Those who are crossing the borders or don’t have correct documents are placed in these
centers to be medically abused and neglected. This translation is very neatly organized
and even linked other sources to support their text. Many of those sources being from