Professor Jim Tabery and Graduate Student Lida Sarafrazarpatapeh co-author article on victims of eugenic sterilization in Utah
"Victims of eugenic sterilisation in Utah: cohort demographics and estimate of living survivors," is co-authored by James Tabery, Nicole Novak, Lida Sarafrazarpatapeh, and Aubrey Mansfield. The article was published February 2023 in The Lancet and has received the following media coverage:
Television
· U of U Study Recounts Horrifying History of Forced Sterilization Due to Eugenics, abc4 News
· Utah Department of Health and Human Services Apologizes for 1925-1974 Sterilization Program, abc4 News
Radio
· Forcible Sterilization in Utah with James Tabery on Monday’s Access Utah, Utah Public Radio
· Utah Is Sorting Out Its Dark Legacy from a 49-Year Program of Forced Sterilization, KUER (with radio broadcast here)
· Disability Law Center on Utah’s History of Forcibly Sterilizing People with Disabilities, KRCL
Print/Newspaper/Website
· At Least 830 People Were Sterilized at State Institutions. Now One Utah Agency Is Looking for Survivors, The Salt Lake Tribune
· “The Shame Belongs to the State”: New Study Reveals Scale of Coerced Sterilization in Utah, Fox13 News
· Survivors of Utah’s Eugenics Program Are Alive in 2023 Without an Apology, IFLScience
· Forced Sterilization Survivors Are Still Alive and Deserve an Apology, Utah Researchers Say, Courthouse News