“Sobrevivir,” by L.A. artist Phung Huynh, pays homage to women coerced into sterilization at LAC + USC Medical Center in the 1960s and ’70s. Her sculpture’s title means R…
Black cloths were pulled away, uncovering the steel and concrete artwork beneath, and revealing the words from some of the 240 mostly Latina mothers forcibly sterilized at LAC + USC Medical Center more than 50 years ago: “If you speak English, they treat you one way. If you don’t speak English, they treat you another way.”
Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, speaks during a ceremony to unveil civic artwork “Sobrevivir” by artist Phung Huynh at LAC USC Medical Center Monday, July 11, 2022. The artwork recognizes the practice of coerced sterilization that took place at the hospital between 1968 and 1974.
First District Supervisor Hilda Solis, who spearheaded the project, said the story hit her hard, and years later is still relevant. “Many of the 240 women did not even realize until later they had lost their reproductive rights. This was an assault on their freedom, something we are seeing once again with theWomen, community members, doctors, nurses, county officials and the press stood on the artwork’s edge taking pictures and videos of the large work and adjoining plaque.
Even after the law was repealed, an analysis by the Center for Investigative Reporting and a follow-up state audit found that more than 140 pregnant women, mostly Black and Latina, were given tubal ligations after giving birth at two California prisons between 2005 and 2013.
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