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1960s Puerto Rican Women Sterilized as a "solution to poverty"
12022-07-28T22:57:50+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Many of the women, such as the one featured above, did not know what they were getting themselves into. The operation was marketed as a solution to poverty and many women thought that once their tubes were tied, they could be “untied”. This was not the case and they ended up losing their reproductive rights to give birth to more children.plain2022-07-28T22:57:50+00:001960sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
12023-03-06T21:49:55+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49Reproductive RightsGina Leon2Photographic Research and Illustrationsgallery2023-03-24T00:33:53+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
12023-03-06T21:49:37+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49Women's LiberationGina Leon2Photographic Research and Illustrationsgallery2023-03-24T00:30:48+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
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12022-07-26T00:40:04+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491960s Reproductive Rights MovementGina Leon12gallery2022-07-29T00:17:49+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49