5 Examples of the War on the Black Woman's Womb

Forced Breeding Breeding enslaved Africans was a profitable business in the United States for hundreds of years. Although forcing two strangers to engage in sexual intercourse was traumatizing to both genders, Black women endured a heavy burden of pregnancy, childbirth and child loss. Children created through forced breeding were marketed as highly desirable stock when sold on auction blocks. Countless Black women endured the ongoingprocess of rape, gestation, labor, delivery and sale of their children several times within a lifetime; literally turning her womb into an extremely lucrative slave production factory. Forced Sterilization in the United States In 1927, The US Supreme Court declared sterilization of handicap persons constitutional. This ruling was used as justification to sterilize Black women who were deemed "mentally diseased" or "feeble minded" by accepted scientific phenotype classifications. Hundreds of thousands of perfectly healthy Black women were sterilized throughout the United States with California and North Carolina topping the list for almost a century. Without informed consent in many cases, Black women were routinely sterilized for no valid medical cause. Teaching hospitals in the South performed unnecessary hysterectomies on Black women so often, the procedure came to be known as "Mississippi Appendectomies". The Negro Project In 1939, a Black sterilization initiative called The Negro Project was created and implemented by Eugenicist Margaret Sanger. As part of her ongoing efforts to purge society "undesirables" such as the mentally handicapped and the poor, Sanger designed an insidious agenda to remove the "black stain" from the fibers of American society. Sanger knew that earning the trust of the Black community was not going to be easy. Cleverly, she enlisted the assistance of Black religious, political and scholarly leaders. The idea that sterilization could provide a means towards upward mobility for Blacks was heavily debated between Black ministers and scholars. Sanger managed to garnish enough Black leadership support to penetrate the Black community with her sterilization programs nationally. The Negro Project would ultimately lead to the sterilizations and pregnancy terminations of millions of Black women for decades to come. Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood, was founded by Eugenicist Margaret Sanger in 1916. From that moment on, Sanger's mission to insure population control of minorities, the impoverished and the handicapped has been nothing short of controversial, but successful nonetheless. With continuous financial and legislative support from the U.S. government, Planned Parenthood continues to propser. In 2008-2009, Planned Parenthood reported that it received $363.2 million in government grants and contracts. Presently, planned parenthood is responsible for more than 25% of abortions in the United States. From 2011-2012, Planned Parenthood conducted 333,964 surgical abortions throughout their facilities nationally. Although Planned Parenthood denies targeting minorities when providing pregnancy prevention service, 79% of Planned Parenthood surgical abortion facilities are within Black and Hispanic communities. Cesarian Sections A report in the "Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2008" stated that the rate of C-Section births has increased by 56% since 1996. Black women rank highest of all demographics, with 34.5% of all reported child births using the Cesarian procedure. Many of these women have low risk pregnancies, so C-sections are often unnecessary. Medical professionals often try to convince expecting mothers to undergo C-Sections because the procedure can mean higher profits and lower risk for malpractice liability. Cesarian Section procedures can have dangerous results for both mother and child including injury, blood clots and infections. Women who have undergone C-Section increase risks during future pregnancies with complications such as uterine rupture, which can be deadly for both mother and child. 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