How the Los Angeles Women Sterilized Against Their Will Fought Back

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 29, 2016

Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña joins us to talk about her documentary "No Más Bebés" which investigates the forced sterilization of Mexican immigrant women in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 70s and recounts how several of the women organized and fought back. Premieres on Independent Lens on February 1st at 10 p.m. on PBS.

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