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Between 1930 and 1970, around one third of all women in Puerto Rico were sterilized to address concerns of 'surplus population'
After Puerto Rico became a US colony in 1898, the federal and local governments pushed sterilization as a way to "economically develop" the island.
www.businessinsider.com
How many knew about this?
I find this absolutely fascinating on many levels, especially at a time when the powers that be are all about population control.
You had a hodge podge of supporters for the sterilization. Some just wanted to sterilize the brown skinned poverty-stricken race because they were deemed inferior. as where others simply wanted to reduce the number of poverty-stricken folks to reduce suffering. So, they joined hands to accomplish the same task.
Is this what we have going on even today as abortion and gender change is pushed across the globe?