How has the government-sanctioned forced reproductive sterilization? Since the 1930s, over thirty state eugenics boards approved the coerced sterilization of over sixty thousand Americans. This week, author of “Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare”  and Rutgers associate department chair and professor, Johanna Schoen, joined us to explain how state governments forcibly took reproductive rights from our most vulnerable citizens. 

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