Aidan
"Anchor Babies"
Women Studies
You wouldn't think it could be possible, that a mother could be tricked into being sterilized. The story of a doctor pressuring a pregnant woman in the middle of labor into agreeing to sign and have themselves sterilized should be nothing but fiction. But it's not, and it happened to multiple women.
The victims were immigrant mothers. In the film are five women who sued the county doctors for sterilizing them without them having proper knowledge of it.
This topic coincides with what we are talking about in class. The fear of "Anchor Babies", now for this movie the women were not illegal, but there is a fear that these children will need support. The cause for alarm about anchor babies is the notion that an immigrant can come here and have their baby born in the states which would, therefore, make it a United States Citizen, which means that that child can take advantage of the benefits of being an American citizen. A lot of people are bothered about the idea that their taxes might go to supporting a child who they believe don't belong in the country.
What does this all have to do with women? Well, these children are born by mothers (obvious, I suppose). That's why things like what is talked about in No Mas Bebes is a problem. A lot of this fear of Anchor Babies is taken out on women.
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