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							<title>Why I Chose to be Childfree and Sterilized at 25</title>
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															<description><![CDATA[Fighting for reproductive rights has been a long-time struggle but when it comes to doctors we&#8217;re taught to inherently trust them and focus on fighting dangerous policies instead. But in the late 1960s and early 1970s, several Mexican-American women trusted a doctor in Los Angeles to help through their pregnancies and found themselves involuntarily sterilized]]></description>
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															<description><![CDATA[The sterilization of Mexican-American women in Los Angeles in the 1970s is at the center of a new short film acquired by HBO. For Rosa, written and directed by Kathryn Boyd-Batstone, is inspired by the Madrigal Ten. The collective was made up of 10 Mexican-American women who underwent sterilization without informed consent, or through coercion]]></description>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The ICE doctor who has allegedly been performing unwanted hysterectomies on women detained at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia is not a board certified OB-GYN, The Daily Beast reports. Dr. Mahendra Amin is at the center of the controversy after former nurse at ICDC Dawn Wooten revealed she&#8217;d seen him perform hysterectomies on]]></description>
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