In 1970, George H.W. Bush authored the Family Planning Act. The act legalized the use of federal funds for the sterilization of the poor and black populations. In 1976, a Government Accounting Office (GAO) study commissioned by Senator James Abourezk of South Dakota, discovered that more than 3400 Native American women of childbearing age had been sterilized over a three year period in four different Indian Health Service areas in the Southwest. Dr. Pinkerton-Uri found that 25% of Native American Indian women had been sterilized without their consent. The study also found that many of the sterilization consent forms to be illegal and not in compliance with Indian Health Service regulations.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:46:14 +0000
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