Stacy Cordova Diaz, whose great-aunt was a victim of California’s forced sterilization movement, visited La Casa Cultural to explain how the legacy of eugenics haunts Americans today.
Though the sterilization law was overturned in 1979, it wasn’t until 2014 that prison sterilizations were banned. Now the state is paying reparations to victims in amounts between $10,000 and $25,000.