A new documentary, “No Más Bebés,” examines a California hospital’s sterilizations of Mexican-American women in the early 1970s — and the women who filed suit in response.
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Kent College History's curator insight,
October 13, 2016 7:36 AM
In 1975, 10 plaintiffs filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court claiming that the Los Angeles County U.S.C. Medical Center was systematically sterilising Spanish-speaking mothers who delivered their babies via cesarean section.
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