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By Janelli Vallin, Special to CalMatters
Janelli Vallin is a global sexual and reproductive health researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, janelli.vallin@ucsf.edu.
When my family and I would drive past Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center when I was young, I never thought much of it. But when I learned that it was the site of the systematic sterilization of working-class women of Mexican origin in the 1970s, I’ve never looked at it the same way again.
As I pass this building now, I think a lot about my Latinx heritage and what it means to be born in a country that thinks people who look like me and my family aren’t worthy of the right to build our own families.
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By Janelli Vallin, Special to CalMatters
Janelli Vallin is a global sexual and reproductive health researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, janelli.vallin@ucsf.edu.
When my family and I would drive past Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center when I was young, I never thought much of it. But when I learned that it was the site of the systematic sterilization of working-class women of Mexican origin in the 1970s, I’ve never looked at it the same way again.
As I pass this building now, I think a lot about my Latinx heritage and what it means to be born in a country that thinks people who look like me and my family aren’t worthy of the right to build our own families.