The forgotten time Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought against forced sterilization
By Ria Tabacco Mar,
The Washington Post
| 09. 19. 2020
The words of the nurse, Dawn Wooten, made me recall another uterus collector, from another time, and another woman who fought back.
Apart from her legendary dissents on the Supreme Court of the United States, Ginsburg is perhaps best known for the six cases she argued before the court as director of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, a position I’m privileged to hold now. In 1973, the year Ginsburg had her first argument before the high court, she and the Women’s Rights Project co-founder, Brenda Feigen, filed a federal lawsuit in North Carolina on behalf of Nial Ruth Cox, a Black...
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