sterilization. Further, if a woman passed this rule of 120, the further endorsement of two doctors and a psychologist was requisite for a woman to be sterilized (Roberts 95). For white women, wanting sterilization has been a deviant action which needs to be medicalized and controlled by the state. The desi!
             res of white women to control their fertility and family size have often been put overshadowed by State policies that promote reproduction from the "proper" women.
             In comparison to while white upper class women who have been encouraged to reproduce, black women have struggled against forced sterilization. The 1930s showed waves of legislation reinforcing the State's ideal of white motherhood. US policy reflected the goals of the Eugenics movement which sought to stop those who were feebleminded or societal misfits from reproducing. Southern states implemented laws preventing interracial marriage and categorizing blacks as a group whose population must be controlled. This theory of thinking continued to grow and as Roberts exp
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