摘要：“Inside I feel pain, remembering,” says Carolina “Maria” Hurtado,in Spanish. Consuelo Hermosillo echoes her in English, “It’s likewhen you bury somebody, you’re always going to carry it in yourhead.” Whether they speak in Spanish or English, the pain andanger felt by these Mexicanas, who were coercively sterilized in theLos Angeles County–University of Southern California MedicalCenter in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is palpable. Whiletraumatized, they were not, however, silenced by their pain andspoke up with courage against this injustice as part of a group of tenplaintiffs in the 1978 Madrigal v. Quilligan case, a federal classactionlawsuit filed against E. J. Quilligan, MD, and other hospitalobstetricians. The voices of Dolores Madrigal, the lead plaintiff, andother Latina women who participated in the lawsuit are at the centerof a recent documentary, No Más Bebés (No More Babies) (2015)by Virginia Espino and Renee Tajima-Peña. Told in a movingmanner, interspersed with interviews and a variety of archivalmaterial, the documentary shows these women’s little-known storythat resonates with intersectionality across issues—of gender, race, immigration, class, and reproductivechoice—of enduring and urgent relevance.
