Access to hysterectomy is stratified by race, age, and gender identity. Eugenic policies have historical and current implications for reproductive health care. There is a link between attacks on trans health, reproductive health, and eugenics. Positive eugenics aims to increase births among specific populations while restricting fertility for others. This reflects the ordering logic of white supremacy and patriarchy. The author emphasizes the importance of bodily autonomy and reproductive agency against these systemic assaults.
"When we talk about eugenics, we tend to talk about, for example, the history of forced sterilization in the United States, of wanting to prevent the births of Black and brown people, of poor people. But we talk less about what's called positive eugenics, of wanting to increase births."
"At the core of this chipping away at bodily autonomy is the desire to increase the fertility rates of some kinds of people, and then reduce the freedoms and fertility of other people."
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