In Chapter 12 of Undivided Rights, presents the history and the health status of Latino women. She specifically argues women of color always seem to be treated poorly when it comes to healthcare.
Women of color were used as experiments for pregnancy prevention as well as operational
procedures. The reading claims that Puerto Rican women were sterilized without knowing or were misinformed about the procedures. The women were under the impression that it would prevent them from having kids temporarily. It’s crazy how the United States was behind these sterilizations and they even conducted them in their own country to their own people either through forced sterilization or by imposing ideologies in women’s minds. They assume that women of color are poor since they have no healthcare and they do unnecessary produced or get treated poorly.
It seems that when latinas go into the healthcare system language seems to be a barrier (223) this creates an issue in the healthcare delivery. This is why many people were sterilized without knowing because the doctors took advantage of this language issue. Even when Latinos receive medical assistance “ many reports high dissatisfaction with the health care they receive” (224).
This article makes me reflect on my own experience with my pregnancy. I remember that the doctors would say take prenatal vitamins, but she only mentioned it once and that was all. she never asked to refill my prescription so I remember I went a month without them until I had to ask her. Even in the hospital, it seemed that residents did the job. I remember telling them that I did not want a resident stitching me up and they disregarded my request. It seems that in that women are ignored in the medical field and are usually misinformed about the procedures that are done to them.
How can we address sterilization of the women? Did the government ever give a reward to them?
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