Mass Sterilizations (feb 1, 1930 – apr 1, 1970)

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1930 – 1970
MASS STERILIZATION

Puerto Rican women are massively used for the testing of IUDs and birth control pills. In addition, between 1930 and 1970, approximately one-third of Puerto Rico’s female population of childbearing age undergo “the operation,” the highest rate in the world.

Many of these women were “operated” upon without their knowledge or consent. Most frequently, these “procedures” occurred immediately after childbirth.

A doctor prepares for “the operation” during the 1930s The Human Betterment Association of America promotes Eugenics (a thinly-veiled version of Nazi racial cleansing) as a basis for sterilizing blacks in the U.S. mainland, and Puerto Ricans on the island.


The available research and documentation of this colonial genocide is extensive.

Here is a robust bibliography: Sterilization of Puerto Rican Women - https://www.library.wisc.edu/gwslibrarian/

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