Latinas and Stratified Reproduction Recently, the stories of Latinas' struggle for reproductive rights have been coming out. These stories provided evidence that the US was funding forced sterilization of Latinas and other ethnic groups. In their article, Elena R. Gutiérrez and Liza Fuentes study two communities, Puerto Rican women in Puerto Rico and New York and Mexican-origin women in Los Angeles. Once Puerto Rico became a US colony in 1898, people began to talk about Puerto Rico being overpopulated. To deal with this a large portion, over 34\% of mothers aged 20–49, were sterilized. Not all women chose to be sterilized. Many of these women were used for contraceptive testing without their knowledge. Mexican-origin women were another community that experiences forced sterilization. They were non consensual sterilizations. These sterilizations came from the idea that Latinas are over-populating the US. In his article, Leo Chavez discusses Latina fertility in the United States. Their ethnic identity drove a new set of advertisements, anti-immigration advertisements. These advertisements suggest that the Latina communities leave. That their fertility was not wanted in the US, a country where the population growth rate was near zero. Puerto Ricans such as those discussed in the article by Gutiérrez and Fuentes were a part of this larger Latina community that was being targeted. In Leo Chavez's article, he collects data to discuss fertility rates in Latinas . He uses this data to show that while Latinas are having more children, they are not started at a younger age as the US would like to believe.
Latinx Populations and Stratified Reproduction Recently, the stories of Latinx struggle for reproductive rights have been coming out. These stories provided evidence that the US was funding forced sterilization of Latinx people and other ethnic groups. In their article, Elena R. Gutiérrez and Liza Fuentes study two communities, Puerto Rican women in Puerto Rico and New York and Mexican-origin women in Los Angeles. Once Puerto Rico became a US colony in 1898, people began to talk about Puerto Rico being overpopulated. To deal with this a large portion, over 34\% of mothers aged 20–49, were sterilized. Not all women chose to be sterilized. Many of these women were used for contraceptive testing without their knowledge. Mexican-origin women were another community that experiences forced sterilization. They were non consensual sterilizations. These sterilizations came from the idea that Latinx folks are over-populating the US. In his article, Leo Chavez discusses Latinx fertility in the United States. Their ethnic identity drove a new set of advertisements, anti-immigration advertisements. These advertisements suggest that the Latinx communities leave. That their fertility was not wanted in the US, a country where the population growth rate was near zero. Puerto Ricans such as those discussed in the article by Gutiérrez and Fuentes were a part of this larger Latinx community that was being targeted. In Leo Chavez's article, he collects data to discuss fertility rates in Latinx people . He uses this data to show that while Latinx folks are having more children, they are not started at a younger age as the US would like to believe.
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