An important part of feminism as well as everyday life is analyzing situations with various perspectives, or multiple lens. In using multiple lens, one develops an understanding that experience varies greatly and is influenced by race, gender, socio-economic standing, age, ablebodiedness and sexuality. With respect to abortion, sterilization and birth control, the movement to secure women's reproductive rights has been dominated by middle and upper class white concerns at the expense of poor women of color.
             Debates around reproductive freedom and State policies have reinforced the black/white dichotomy that pits white women who are pushed into bearing children against colored women who are systematically denied the right to have children, or to have children in socio-economically advantageous environments. The reproductive rights movement was and to a lesser extent still is characterized by its failure to account for any experience that may differ from that of white middle to upper-class women. Focus on only the experiences and concerns of one group kept the reproductive rights movement from organizing across class and race lines, and thus kept it from realizing the true potential for change that could have been offered by a comprehensive reproductive rights movement. As noted in Collins, "much feminist theorizing about motherhood has failed to recognize diversity in mothering, and has projected white, middle-class women's concerns as universal" (6). If women are to have repr!
             oductive rights for more than a fleeting moment, the experiences and concerns of all women must be addressed with equal vigor.
             The focus on sterilization as a means of reproductive control has played a long and complex part in American history. As a method of contraception sterilization has offered many attractive and advantageous qualities which have often made it a preferred type of contraceptive by women. With the assertion of...