Original sentence: Some sources credit the practice to theories of racial eugenics.Sterilization of Latinas was practice in American history of sterilizing Latina women, including involuntarily
Edited sentence: Although eugenic sterilization programs did not explicitly target specific groups for sterilization, Latinas were disproportionately targeted by these policies as well as other women of color, such as Native American/Indigenous women.Anti-Latina sentiments called for coerced and forced sterilization as a form of population control in order to keep this “undesirable” population from reproducing and immigrating to the United States.Eugenic science legitimized racial stereotypes that Whites were superior while Latinas were undesirable, feeble minded, and unfit to reproduce