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Minali Aggarwal
In 2008, Kelli Dillon was sterilized in a California state prison without her consent.
She was only 24 years old and had just arrived in prison with a 15-year sentence after defending herself and her two young children against her abusive husband. Though she knew her situation was unjust, she was determined to get through her sentence and get a second chance at love, romance and motherhood.
But when she was sterilized without her knowledge, the dream of a second chance at being a mother was stripped away from her just as quickly as the first.
Shortly after arriving at Central California Women s Facility, Dillon went to the doctor with painful abdominal cramps. The doctors told her they would need to do a procedure to check for abnormal cells and perform a hysterectomy in the event she had cancer.
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El estado de California intenta reparar su oscuro pasado y ha creado un millonario fondo para indemnizar monetariamente a cientos de mujeres a quienes con esterilizaciones forzadas, se les Impidió tener bebés. Sin embargo, hay mujeres que a pesar de haber sufrido este trauma en condados como Los Ángeles, aún no van a poder recibir ninguna compensación.
Desde inicios del siglo pasado miles de mujeres fueron esterilizadas en California bajo leyes de eugenismo, para impedir que latinos, otras minorías y discapacitados tuvieran bebés. Sin embargo las esterilizaciones forzadas también ocurrieron recientemente en prisiones estatales.
Published May 26, 2021 at 1:05 AM PDT Listen • 51:12
On this edition of Your Call, we rebroadcast our discussion about
Belly of the Beast, a documentary that follows two women who expose modern day eugenics in California prisons. They uncovered sexual assault, inadequate healthcare, and illegal sterilizations.
According to the Center for Investigative Reporting, more than 130 female inmates were involuntarily sterilized from 2006 to 2010. In 2014, California banned coerced sterilizations. What will it take to end reproductive injustice in US prisons?
Guests:
Belly of the Beast