00:00The mentioning of sterilization of black and brown women. One of the challenges in this entire conversation is to remind people that black women, brown women have long experienced discrimination in health care that hasn't been part of the general agenda around anti-racism, nor has it been part of the agenda around reproductive rights.
00:27So sterilization is such an important point. It was so common in the South that there was a name for it. It was called a Mississippi appendectomy.
00:36And that's something that Fannie Lou Hamer experienced. Now, think about what our conversation would be like if we were able to recognize how one of the leading civil rights activists of our generation, Fannie Lou Hamer,
00:51was not only struggling against vote suppression and vote denial, but also struggling against her reproductive rights.
00:59And if reproductive rights were as central to the agenda of race reform, of anti-discrimination as everything else,
01:07we wouldn't have to be fighting as hard as we're fighting now for recognition that the fact that we die more than any other women in the United States,
01:17in most of the developed world from childbirth, the fact that it's not simply a matter of do we have access to health care?
01:24I mean, the fact that Serena Williams almost died because the doctors didn't believe what she had to say.
01:30This is Serena Williams and they're not listening to her. So if they're not listening to Serena Williams, you know that they're not listening to the rest of us.
01:37So the challenge really is to, first of all, for recognition, to know and see all the ways that black women experience discrimination.
01:45And one of those is in health care. And second, to put those issues squarely on the agenda.
01:51So we have something to really fight about. If you can't see the problem, you can't fight about the problem.
01:56And so our challenge is to do both of those things.
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