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By Professor Iris Lopez

ISBN-10: 081354372X

ISBN-13: 9780813543727

ISBN-10: 0813546249

ISBN-13: 9780813546247

In "Matters of Choice," Iris Lopez provides a complete research of the dichotomous perspectives that experience portrayed sterilization both as a part of a coercive application of inhabitants keep an eye on or as a way of voluntary, even releasing, fertility keep watch over via person girls. Drawing upon her twenty-five years of study on sterilized Puerto Rican girls from 5 varied households in Brooklyn, Lopez untangles the interaction among how ladies make fertility judgements and their social, fiscal, cultural, and ancient constraints.

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Everything was a disaster. I was a young girl when my mother assisted other women in giving birth. She would say to me: “bring me whatever old clothing we have to lay so and so on the floor because she is such a poor soul she has no bed. I brought her whatever clothing I could find and some chicken broth as well. We raised chickens at home and part of my job was to make and bring my mother soup. One other reason women in this generation had large families was because they did not have access to temporary methods of birth control.

The association helped to galvanize a variety of private groups interested in the legalization of birth control in Puerto Rico (Earnhardt 1982, 25, 26). And, most important, in 1937 the Maternal Association was a catalyst for the introduction of birth control and sterilization legislation. This legislation established licensing procedures for doctors to practice and disseminate information about sterilization and birth control for both sexes. This legislation represented a major gain for those who had fought for birth control in Puerto Rico (Vazquez-Calzada 1988).

The Relf sisters, twelve- and fourteen-year-old African American girls, were sterilized without their mother’s consent because a few racist doctors and nurses feared they would otherwise become unwed mothers (CARASA 1979). Policy Solutions to Overpopulation Since the United States occupied Puerto Rico in 1898, the island has been characterized by policy makers and journalists as suffering from a prevailing 6 m at t e r s o f c h o i c e problem of overpopulation, and the policies of emigration and population control that developed in response to this problem were influenced by neoMalthusian and eugenic approaches.

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