The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health will screen No Más Bebés, a documentary about a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a group of Mexican immigrant women sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized without consent while giving birth at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Set against a debate over the impact of Latino immigration and overpopulation, and the birth of a movement for Chicana rights and reproductive choice, No Más Bebés revisits a powerful story that still resonates today.

Introduced by Claudia Flores, Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, formerly a United Nations legal advisor and attorney with the ACLU National's Women's Rights Project.


Consent, Choice, Agency
Documentary Film Series at the CSGS, Spring 2016

The series explores sex, violence and reproduction in contexts of law, medicine, culture and identity: the chipping away of abortion rights and the war on Planned Parenthood, sterilization abuse and sexual shaming which aim to control women’s sexuality, sexual pleasure, and reproduction and the possibilities embodied in making families and parenting across gender lines.

A law school group will leave from the VCA at 5:30.  Dinner will be served.