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Meet the Group That Gives Addicts Drug Money to Get Sterilized -- and the Right-Wingers That Fund Them

Jed Bickman, The Fix. May 3, 2012.

For years, Project Prevention has been paying poor, addicted women not to procreate -- now, with money from the far right, it's going global.

Black Market Birth Control? How Undocumented Immigrants Access Contraception Without Health Care

Valeria Fernández, New America Media. March 23, 2012.

Undocumented immigrant women must travel to Mexico, where no prescription is required, or buy them from the underground market in Phoenix, without seeing a doctor first.

Where Is the Anti-Choice Outcry Over North Carolina's Forced Sterilization of Women of Color?

Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check. January 27, 2012.

A task force in North Carolina recently ruled that survivors of that state’s eugenics program should be paid $50,000 each in financial compensation.

Countering Anti-Choice 'Black Genocide' Lies

Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check. February 19, 2008.

Reproductive justice advocates need to reach out to communities of color in order to fight rumors and battle racisms past and present.