Mean Girls
This film focuses on the controversial topics of feminism, immigration, Latino Health inequality through art, reproductive justice, and human rights. Where in the 1960’s women who went to seek medical care in the county hospitals especially those giving birth went back home while sterilized to save taxpayers money and control population among Mexican immigrants. This procedure was a forced one as mothers signed them while going into labor and others didn’t remember signing them. Civil rights movement arose at that time. The group of women who were forced to sterilize while undergoing birth procedure at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center led by a lawyer who was also involved in the event decided to sue the county doctors, the Los Angeles state, and the US government. Most women were Mexicans and marginalized, and they feared their tubes had been tied by the doctors in the process of giving birth. The process had to be performed if the mother accepted, contrary to what happened to these women of color. Hospital records gathered by a concerned doctor to a Chicana lawyer who was representing other women of color who got medical service from the public hospitals who took up the cause of the mothers. It was argued that the right of a
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Social services being provided are either not available to a percentage of the minority or, it is of poor quality. Women of color are oppressed, and dialectic to challenges they experience is the US. Ethnicity, culture and more so family is explained in the context of Latino, the system in place got tired of seeing women die and they were fighting for liberation. Women of color who did not have access helped fought choices in health where insurance came up, clinics being near the citizen and easy access, and right of privacy to decide after they were denied the reproductive
Social services being provided are either not available to a percentage of the minority or, it is of poor quality. Women of color are oppressed, and dialectic to challenges they experience is the US. Ethnicity, culture and more so family is explained in the context of Latino, the system in place got tired of seeing women die and they were fighting for liberation. Women of color who did not have access helped fought choices in health where insurance came up, clinics being near the citizen and easy access, and right of privacy to decide after they were denied the reproductive