Bianca Gonzalez specializes in writing about social responsibility and content marketing. She is 22 years old and has a Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Buffalo State in philosophy and English.
From 1937 to 1960, one third of the population of mothers on the island of Puerto Rico were sterilized through manipulation and misinformation, while others became part of the first clinical trials for the first birth control pill after being misled to believe that the drug was already proven safe.
The ways in which disabled people have suffered from the stigma surrounding disability vary “from the freak shows of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the unwilling institutionalization and sterilizations of disabled people.” Disabled activists like Michael Winter recalls the discrimination he’s experienced like “being forced to
In the 1890s, our society put colonialist abuse on a pedestal when the monument honoring James Marion Sims was erected in Central Park in New York City. James Marion Sims was once applauded for his achievements in gynecology. He perfected surgeries that treated women with vesicovaginal fistulas, ruptures of the
We live in a time when more access to contraceptives means that people have more of a say over their bodies. For women who were of childbearing age in Puerto Rico during the years of 1937–1960, the opposite was true. These women were manipulated by their health care workers