The Road to Health is Paved with 'Good Intentions': A Cautionary Three Part Tale for Global Health in the Spirit of Reproductive Justice
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2010-12-20
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Whynacht, Ardath J.
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The following paper explores three case studies of large-scale forced and coercive surgical sterilizations on indigenous women in Canada, the United States and Peru. The author utilizes settler colonialism as explanation for the complicity of these states in reproductive rights abuses and identifies some risk factors for reproductive rights abuses in future social welfare and global health aid projects.
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Maternal health, sterilization abuse, reproductive rights, settler colonialism, structural genocide, Canada, United States, Peru, eugenics, global health