Programs & Projects

¿Más Bebés?

This film reveals the forgotten history of Mexican American women who were coercively sterilized at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and ’70s. Many spoke no English and were prodded into tubal ligations during the late stages of labor, often based on little more than the question “More babies?”

Kevin Castro
Produced by
Virginia Espino and Renee Tajima-Peña
Los Angeles, CA
Total CPB Investment
$280,000
Made possible by CPB's
Television Programming: Independent Television Service Subgrant
Television Programming: Latino Public Broadcasting Subgrant