re: #42 Obdicut

Buck’s freakout about the Depo-Provera story actually caused me to look into the Israeli Educational TV reporter who broke the story, and I discovered that she’s a reputable left-leaning journalist. The original story the way she reported it seems to be quite true - some Ethiopian women did say they were given the contraceptive without their knowledge.

Some sources took this bit of info and exaggerated it into “forced sterilization,” which it wasn’t. From what I’ve been able to dig up, it looks like a small-scale mistake — a serious mistake, but definitely not some vast racist conspiracy to sterilize immigrants.