No Mas Bebes

Dir. Rene Tajima-Peña - 2016, USA, 79 min.

This important and heartbreaking documentary tells the story of Mexican immigrant women who were sterilized without their knowledge at LA county hospital during the 1970s. With the tireless help of an intrepid, 26-year-old Chicana lawyer and armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a whistle-blowing young doctor, the mothers faced public exposure and stood up to one of LA’s most powerful institutions in the name of justice. They came to have their babies. They went home sterilized. An important chronicle of an era in US health care whose effects are still being felt today.