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13 days agoThey were not sterilized.
(Re)producing the Israeli (European) body: Zionism, Anti-Black Racism and the Depo-Provera Affair https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01417789211016331
In 2013, then Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman admitted that they had administered Depo-Provera to Ethiopian immigrant women without their consent, after reproductive and civil rights activists in Israel called for an investigation after a drop in the birthrate among Ethiopian women: close to 50 per cent within the previous decade.
A significant part of the US version had to do with WASPs vs Southern European Catholic immigrants.
I’m not sure how German Catholic immigrants were treated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans