Ladd-Taylor Molly
Can Bull Med Hist. 2014;31(1):189-211. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.31.1.189.
Nonconsensual sterilization is usually seen as the by-product of a classist and racist society; disability is ignored. This article examines the 1973 sterilization of two young black girls from Alabama and other precedent-setting court cases involving the sterilization of "mentally retarded" white women to make disability more central to the historical analysis of sterilization. It analyzes the concept of mental retardation and the appeal of a surgical solution to birth control, assesses judicial deliberations over the "right to choose" contraceptive sterilization when the capacity to consent is in doubt, and reflects on the shadow of eugenics that hung over the sterilization debate in the 1970s and 1980s.
非自愿绝育通常被视为一个阶级主义和种族主义社会的副产品；残疾问题被忽视了。本文审视了1973年对两名来自阿拉巴马州的年轻黑人女孩实施的绝育手术，以及其他一些具有先例意义的法庭案件，这些案件涉及对“智力迟钝”白人女性的绝育，以使残疾问题在绝育的历史分析中占据更核心的位置。文章分析了智力迟钝的概念以及手术节育解决方案的吸引力，评估了在同意能力存疑时关于“选择”避孕绝育权利的司法审议，并反思了笼罩20世纪70年代和80年代绝育辩论的优生学阴影。
