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Tubal Ligation Do Your Part
Tubal Ligation
Help Make America Healthy
Broadcast over
black and white
console television
Fred Hogue speaks
1941
"After having rid ourselves of yellow fever, On our way, to wiping
malaria off, the map
we can now begin
to focus on the people.
Together we can
Make this World Healthy"
Lock me away,
hide my momentary departure from normal
mentality.
They call us unfit,
our integrity is in
question
They probe deep,
into our lives for that
feebleminded identity
they say, lies dormant within my womb
Slicing away with
needles and scalpels.
Brothers and sisters,
white, brown and black
cry out, into vain darkness.
Their voices drown,
beneath the loud
speaker, set on stereo
"It's for your health
And the health of
the country
Be smart
Do your part
Help Make America Healthy
Broadcast over
black and white
console television
Fred Hogue speaks
1941
"After having rid ourselves of yellow fever, On our way, to wiping
malaria off, the map
we can now begin
to focus on the people.
Together we can
Make this World Healthy"
Lock me away,
hide my momentary departure from normal
mentality.
They call us unfit,
our integrity is in
question
They probe deep,
into our lives for that
feebleminded identity
they say, lies dormant within my womb
Slicing away with
needles and scalpels.
Brothers and sisters,
white, brown and black
cry out, into vain darkness.
Their voices drown,
beneath the loud
speaker, set on stereo
"It's for your health
And the health of
the country
Be smart
Do your part
Published 25th Sep 2020
Author's Note
Written for competition EdibleWords
Forced sterilization in California Hospitals 1970
Reason - unwed mothers are more promiscuous
more likely to contract syphillis which at the time was a health concern
Forced sterilization in California Hospitals 1970
Reason - unwed mothers are more promiscuous
more likely to contract syphillis which at the time was a health concern
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25th Sep 2020 7:10am
25th Sep 2020 3:26pm
29th Sep 2020 2:34am
Sounds very bleak but at least you have raised awareness in this forgotten episode of American or even maybe World history. Now that we are facing a new health crisis in 2020, it's the same result, isn't it? They're locking us up.
