A new art project is intended to serve as an apology to the more than 200 women who suffered forced sterilizations decades ago at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.
. Researchers have estimated that 20,000 people — many of them Black and Latino — were left unable to have children before the practice was finally stopped in 1979., which included an estimated $25,000 for the hundreds of living survivors. But women who received forced sterilizations at the Boyle Heights hospital are not eligible.to the victims of forced sterilizations at the County-USC Medical Center.
"The tremendous physical and emotional harm to these women, their families, and our communities cannot be undone. But we owe them our heartfelt apologies and a visual memorial, a plaque at LAC+USC Medical Center, that will remind current and future generations of this past injustice so that this tragedy will never occur again."L.A.
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