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Reduced health insurance payments for hospital births had a bigger impact on sterilization rates than correcting an injustice
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A research analysis shows that changes to health insurance reimbursement for post-birth care had a larger effect on reducing female sterilization rates in the US than public awareness of historical forced sterilization practices targeting poor Black women.
Reduced health insurance payments for hospital births had a bigger impact on sterilization rates than correcting an injustice
Public outrage over the forced sterilization of poor, Black women had less impact on female sterilization rates in the U.S. than a policy changing how post-birth care is delivered. DisobeyArt/iStock via Getty Images Plus
For decades, female sterilization has been one of the most common forms of birth control in the U.S.: 11.5% of U.S. women, ages 15-49, use female sterilization as their primary contraceptive method – nearly identical to the pill.
But the history of sterilization is also deeply e
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