CSGS Spring Film Series
April 28
No Más Bebés (Renee Tajima-Peña, 2015, 79 min.)
The story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican immigrant women sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Eugenics, coerced and uninformed sterilization, 1975 class action suit, Madrigal v. Quilligan.
Trailer: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/no-mas-bebes-preview/
More info on eugenics programs in the U.S.: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwantedsterilization-
and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
Date: April 28, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Date: April 28, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM