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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “The United States sterilized women for decades.”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Published | Video Starts at 42:13

And that is a place of tremendous vulnerability that people feel that is immensely legitimate. And then if you add the racial component too, you know, I'm Puerto Rican. The United States sterilized women for decades. And so you have Covid, you have vaccines, and obviously in the black community, same thing. And so that is a perfect storm of a lack of trust in institutions that is oftentimes very valid and very legitimate. (42:13–42:18)

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Asserts that the U.S. government engaged in sterilizing women for decades.

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