*White Women In Robes *

Inde : des travailleuses des champs privées de leur utérus « pour améliorer leur rendement »
RTBF, le 18 juin 2019
▻https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_inde-des-travailleuses-des-champs-privees-de-leur-uterus-pour-ameliorer-

Beed : High hysterectomy rate among sugarcane cutters signals unethical medical practices, poor work conditions
Meena Menon, First Post, le 16 juin 2019
►https://www.firstpost.com/india/beed-high-hysterectomy-rate-among-sugarcane-cutters-signals-unethical-med

Voir des histoires analogues de par le monde sexiste ici :
#contraception_forcée

#Inde #femmes #pauvres #stérilisation #hystérectomie #utérus #discriminations #sexisme #classisme #capitalisme

La castration chimique obligatoire : une proposition dangereuse
▻http://lvsl.fr/la-castration-chimique-obligatoire-une-proposition-dangereuse

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La castration chimique est déshumanisante car elle revient à nier la capacité des individus à contrôler leur corps. En soi, toute action sur le corps même du condamné est une violence inacceptable. En France, comme dans tous les États de droit, les peines de prison ne devraient être que la privation de la liberté d’aller et venir et seulement la privation de cette liberté. Malheureusement, nos concitoyens semblent attendre de la peine qu’elle humilie le condamné, qu’elle le prive non seulement de sa liberté, mais aussi de sa dignité.

D’où les discours récurrents sur « la prison [infestée par les rats, les puces, les cafards, la gale et avec un siège de toilette pour quatre détenus], c’est pas le Club Med ! », qu’une enquête de la fondation Jean Jaurès en collaboration avec l’Ifop publiée le 10 avril 2018 ne fait qu’attester : 50% des personnes interrogées estiment que les détenus bénéficient de trop bonnes conditions de détention, contre 18% en 2000.

Dans le même ordre d’idées, quoique moins rigoureux statistiquement, à la question « Êtes-vous favorable à la castration chimique pour les coupables de viol(s) ? » posée par le chatbot Messenger du vidéaste Hugo Travers le 3 mai 2018, sur les 6722 participants (très probablement, sans qu’il soit possible de le prouver, dans la sphère jeune, progressiste et éduquée de la population française), 43% ont répondu « oui », pour une minuscule majorité (50%) de « non » et 7% de personnes « sans opinion ».

« 50% des personnes interrogées estiment que les détenus bénéficient de trop bonnes conditions de détention »

Si le caractère déshumanisant de la castration chimique ne semble pas émouvoir plus que ça nos concitoyens, la proposition de loi, si elle venait à se concrétiser, apparaît toutefois difficilement conciliable avec de nombreux droits protégés par notre Constitution et par nos engagements internationaux.

In 1907, Indiana became the first state to pass a law permitting the sterilization of “confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists.” The Ishmaels were invoked in the drafting of the legislation, under which over 2,300 people were sterilized.

Meet the Ishmaels, America’s ‘worst’ family
Eugenicists studied this band of ‘paupers, beggars and thieves, criminals, prostitutes, wanderers.’
▻https://timeline.com/ishmaels-americas-worst-family-1bacd94969b5

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The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair was christened “A Century of Progress.” A lot had changed since the first world’s fair in 1893: zeppelins soared, Ford’s assembly line had brought automobiles to the masses, and pre-fabricated homes were the wave of the future.

And eugenics was now considered by many to be a legitimate science. As such, it received its own exhibit at the fair. One panel in the eugenics exhibit showed the genealogy of the best family in America: the Roosevelts. Juxtaposed to that was another panel, showing the genealogy of the worst family in America: the Ishmaels.

“Among certain charity workers and eugenicists at the time,” says Nathaniel Deutsch, a history professor at UC Santa Cruz and author of Inventing America’s “Worst” Family, “any poor white Upland Southerner living in or around Indianapolis could just be called an Ishmaelite or a member of the Tribe of Ishmael as a way of stigmatizing them.”

By the 1930s, the term “Tribe of Ishmael” had come to designate thousands of people who were not all part of the biological same family — though eugenicists sought to prove hereditary connections between them. They were “a group of degenerates found in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa,” claimed a leaflet from roughly 1921, which tallied 10,000 so-called Ishmaelites. They were “paupers, beggars and thieves, criminals, prostitutes, wanderers.” The leaflet conceded that “some have become good citizens,” but “the great majority are still mating like to like and producing unsocial offspring.”

Lost Mothers
An estimated 700 to 900 women in the U.S. died from pregnancy-related causes in 2016. We have identified 120 of them so far.
▻https://www.propublica.org/article/lost-mothers-maternal-health-died-childbirth-pregnancy

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The U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world. Yet these deaths of women from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth are almost invisible. When a new or expectant mother dies, her obituary rarely mentions the circumstances. Her identity is shrouded by medical institutions, regulators and state maternal mortality review committees. Her loved ones mourn her loss in private. The lessons to be learned from her death are often lost as well.

“”"The inability, or unwillingness, of states and the federal government to track maternal deaths has been called “an international embarrassment.” To help fill this gap, ProPublica and NPR have spent the last few months searching social media and other sources for mothers who died, trying to understand what happened to them and why. So far, we’ve identified 120 pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths for 2016 out of an estimated U.S. total of 700 to 900. Together these women form a picture of maternal mortality that is more racially, economically, geographically and medically diverse than many people might expect. Their ages ranged from 16 to 43; their causes of death, from hemorrhage to infection, complications of pre-existing medical conditions, and suicide. We were struck by how many perished in the postpartum period, by the number of heart-related deaths, by the contributing role sometimes played by severe depression and mood disorders — and by the many missed opportunities to save lives.

ProPublica and NPR plan to expand our 2016 photo gallery as we find more women and hear from more families. If you know of someone who died, please tell us here. Meanwhile, we highlight 16 women with portraits of their lives and deaths. Their stories are a reminder of just how much is lost when a mother dies. Examined together, these private tragedies point to a much bigger public health problem, and underscore the potential repercussions for women and families as Republicans in Congress push to revamp the health care system and roll back Medicaid.