By Aimee Murphy — Editor's Note: This is part 2 of a 2 part series on forced sterilization of incarcerated humans. It is also part of our sereis in solidarity with the ongoing National Prison Strike. At the intersection of racism, ableism, and cruelty to prisoners lies the horrific history of forced sterilization of those incarcerated by the state. Perhaps shockingly, the United States Supreme Court has never overturned Buck v. Bell, the court case which enshrined the compuls

Editor's Note: This is part 1 of a 2 part series on forced sterilization of incarcerated humans. It is also part of our series in solidarity with the ongoing National Prison Strike. Our retributive carceral system in the U.S. is steeped in injustice and rooted in dehumanization, so I suppose I shouldn’t have been shocked to learn of a century-long history of forced sterilization within the United States justice system. Alas, I was gutted as I dove into that grotesque history

BY NATALIE GRONHOLM In my last blog post about euthanasia, we briefly touched upon the different types of euthanasia. Here we will delve more deeply into involuntary euthanasia, its connection with eugenics, and what that could mean for us in the future. To refresh your memory, involuntary euthanasia involves ending the life of a patient against his or her will. Eugenics was originally defined as a social movement which promotes more reproduction between people with more de