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In reply to the discussion: Vasectomy bill proposed in response to Louisiana's abortion ban [View all]intheflow
(28,514 posts)that this proposal is not a clear parallel to those histories in the US. They were ethnically and racially based to suppress those populations (Jews in Nazi Germany, eugenics sterilizations in the US in the early-to-mid 20th Century, Native American women in the 1970s, etc.). THIS is not THAT. This fanciful bill which will never pass would be targeting convicted rapists, not everyday people who, in the instances cited above, were just living their lives. Some were rounded up and brought to Auschwitz and some never left their hometown because they thought they were just going to the hospital to give birth, not give birth and never be able to give birth again.
ALL these sterilizations programs focused on women, first and foremost. The only men who have been targeted have been Black, Latino, Native American, and the mentally and physically disabled. Again: all people who had just been living their lives when the government stepped in (or rounded them up) and sterilized them. This bill would not target innocent people. It would save women from being forced to carry a rape-induced pregnancy from a convicted (and assumedly freed) rapist.