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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Forced Sterilization

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Many were shocked to learn of allegations of forced sterilizations at an ICE facility. In this episode, we explore the long American history of this practice and the heartbreaking truth that this latest incident is just the latest in a long string of clinical genocide by those in power.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Saubones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.

0:07.0

It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?

0:14.0

We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.

0:22.0

You're worth it.

0:25.0

Alright, Tommy is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

0:33.0

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

0:56.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, a battle tour of misguided medicine. I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.

1:09.0

And I'm Sydney McAroy.

1:11.0

No cute intro this week. It's been, I mean, it's just been one fresh hell after another recently. And this is a, you know, it's always thrilling when one of those fresh hells stumbles into Saubones territory.

1:28.0

I wouldn't say thrilling.

1:30.0

Thrilling is not the right word. No. If there's an opposite, why can't they come up with an opposite of thrilling? Come on point Dexter's English majors. It's 2020.

1:42.0

It's 2020 is the opposite of thrilling, but I mean upsetting, disturbing. See, I don't think you're there yet. We'll find something I'm sure.

1:51.0

Well, I, and I should say at the top of this episode that we're going to be talking about the recent, the recent report that there is in a detention facility in Georgia, specifically an immigrant, an ice run immigrant detention facility in Georgia that has been performing forced sterilizations essentially.

2:20.0

Yeah, doing doing procedures on inmates without their consent, the without their informed consent to render them incapable of having children. And we're going to talk about that. And we're also going to talk about the history of that in this country. And so I feel like we should say that right at the beginning.

2:39.0

Yeah, because these are you're able to handle right now.

2:45.0

You know, I, I, I get it. A lot of these, we're going to go through the history. A lot of these crimes specifically have been committed against black indigenous and people of color in this country, as well as the people physically disabled, the mentally disabled.

3:06.0

And I do want to clarify one of the thing before we get too much further. Sydney did say an ice run facility and not a nice run facility like it sounded because that was very confusing for me personally until I sort of parted.

3:25.0

Sydney does not think that this place is nice run US immigration and customs enforcement, I see ice facility, but not it a nice run facility. She doesn't think that I don't want people snipping this out of before you know it.

3:43.0

I think it will be their text message alert is you saying it's a nice run facility where there's forced sterilization.

3:50.0

This is a whole like adventure time ice king nice king. Right exactly. Right. Yes. No, I am. I think a lot of people have heard these recent.

4:01.0

And I buy away enforcing this joke for all it's worth because I don't think there's. It's the only one.

4:07.0

Let me just have this and then I'll move on here. It's why I think that it's important that we talk about it, which I think for a lot of people is self evident, but to just reinforce why this is not new for the United States as shocking and upsetting and horrifying as it is to hear what is happening in this detention center.

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