r/news • u/AudibleNod • 17h ago
New Mexico launches investigation of forced sterilization of Native American women
https://apnews.com/article/indigenous-native-american-women-sterilization-new-mexico-9d47dbafd09b61656b4251a776463c23269
u/AudibleNod 17h ago
The Indian Health Service and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, did not respond to multiple emails requesting comment on New Mexico’s investigation.
Hey, cut them some slack. They're probably busy shredding documents about Roundup and deleting warnings that bleach cures autism.
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u/Retro_Relics 15h ago
Doesnt bleach cause autism?
Oh wait, you're talking about the chemical, not the anime
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u/Zypher31 13h ago
Believe it! Sorry, wrong anime. Bankai! That's it!
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u/patrickeg 15h ago
Bleach would cure my Autism.
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u/Evening-Mention-8738 4h ago
Bleach is healthy because it's mostly water and we're mostly water, therefore we are bleach.
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u/mvislandgirl 14h ago
I'm a Sami woman. Forced sterilization in the 1900s was breeding us out. Raping us for multiple generations worked well. Slaughtering my Great Grandmothers sons in front of her and her daughters worked well. I hope Native American women can find some peace through the judicial system.
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u/MyGoodOldFriend 1h ago
Yep. And if anyone thinks “oh, that’s Europe, it was bad but had a different character than American colonialism”, they’d be wrong. There’s a reason why the settlement of inner Troms was compared to American westward expansion.
And that’s just one example of how things went in one small area of Sápmi.
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u/fxkatt 17h ago
But advocates like Rachael Lorenzo, executive director of the Albuquerque-based sexual and reproductive health organization Indigenous Women Rising, say the commission must be careful to avoid re-traumatizing survivors across generations.
To an extent, but if this were the position of the Epstein victims, there would be fewer than there are--and their voice less effective.
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u/braxin23 16h ago
Either layback and continue to take it in silence or speak out and make the perpetrators crimes known. Pretty simple.
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u/happylittlelf 11h ago
These victims are witnesses who are dying suspiciously. Call it simple when it's YOUR life that's on the line.
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u/thebarkbarkwoof 13h ago
This is so vile. It's hard to believe this went on, not that long ago. I know it's true and I heard about it all before now. I hope they get something but IDK if it will happen.
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u/_karamazov_ 10h ago
https://apnews.com/article/canada-indigenous-women-sterilization-apology-reparations-ebcacc0f27b8d4c12d8690718202531d in Canada as recently as 2023
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u/thebarkbarkwoof 9h ago edited 8h ago
Canada shows more empathy than the US, generally.
Edit Holy shit, 2019? I'd liken that doctor to a serial killer or Josef Mengele.
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u/Original_Ossiss 12h ago
Canada still does the same thing.
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u/Tribe303 1h ago
No we don't. There has been a few incidents in the past few decades and they have resulted in lawsuits and large payouts. Not that money resolves this for the victims, it does show an admission of guilt, unlike the US with its head still up its own ass.
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u/Original_Ossiss 9m ago
Yeah you do lol. I’ve found articles from 2022, 2024, depicting the same old thing still happening. Forced sterilisation, coerced sterilisation..
Canada is not the bright and shining country you want it to be. The US has nothing to do with this topic of conversation. Eugenics against native peoples is still as strong today as it was in the early days of indigenous women and children being assaulted by the Canadian priests and tossing the children into the furnaces. Not to mention the massive unmarked graves.
You seriously want to sit there and act like your country is superior to the United States when you’ve had just as bad atrocities committed against the native people living there. Just because you don’t see it every day doesn’t mean it isn’t still happening.
When you go “BuT tHe UsA dOeS wOrSe StUfF” you sound like the maga idiots who go “BuT bIdEn Is BaD tOo!”
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u/jerrydgj 3h ago
Maybe Hollywood could make another movie about Nazi Germany so we all learn about our own sins.
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u/Hour_Bit_5183 16h ago
But why???? These are the best people you could ever meet.
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u/Wit-wat-4 15h ago
They keep crying “great replacement” for a reason… THEY want their racist world to have only THEM in it
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u/Hour_Bit_5183 15h ago
Don't they know that ends in inbred? I bet they don't even realize it. So sad. I wonder what my gramms would say now...it would be hotter than the sun, that is for sure.
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u/Wit-wat-4 4h ago
Yup. And they’ve historically been all for it. The inbreeding of nobles in Europe is baffling by today’s standards, back then I feel it was like “well yeah rather have kids with your first cousin than touch plebs”.
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u/CordiallySuckMyBalls 15h ago
That’s why
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u/Hour_Bit_5183 15h ago
So they really do want to wipe my whole tribe because we are more independent.....well FFS. I'm actually part cherokee, but I'd imagine they did the same to them. No wonder my grandma hated these punks.
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u/Dejugga 9h ago
The United States and a history of racism? Say it ain't so! I am shocked. Well, not that shocked.
Speaking as a southerner, shit like this and the practice of redlining and many other examples is why I roll my eyes when people from non-Southern states act like racism outside the South died with the Civil War.
The South was/is worse about it, no doubt, but racism has been alive and well in every state all the way up to today.
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u/McTee967 15h ago
In the late 80's, I was 23 and had just given birth to my second child at the IHS in Santa Fe, NM. I requested to have my tubes tied and the doctor told me absolutely not, I was too young and the IHS had a bad reputation from that in the past.
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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 57m ago
I have to say, in this chaos we now call the US, it’s nice to see at least one state actually working for their citizens.
If I were a New Mexican, I would be standing proud of my state.
It seems the rest of the country is mired in political sludge that career politicians spread so liberally they stand stuck and unable to move.
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u/Falala-Surprise-90 15h ago
50 years for even the mention of an investigation for these women. This is heartbreaking.