About the Unauthorized and Incorrect Redistribution of Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W Written Publications Pertaining to Carrie Buck and the Eugenics Movement : How Pseudoscience Dictates Reproductive Rights Policy in the United States of America (U.S.A)

Even though Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W has never sought nor solicited financial payment for people to access his self-published works, unknown others seem to have circumvented the Google Internet Search Engine (ISE) to make it seem as though they were provided exclusive rights [by Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W] to redistribute his written content pertaining to Carrie Buck and the Eugenics movement. Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W was very much annoyed upon learning that unknown others had somehow managed to circumvent the Google ISE for the purpose of profiteering from his name, his image, his likeness and the publication of some of his correspondence. Given this finding, it is Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W genuine hope that no one has paid $62 (sixty-two American dollars) (or whatever other amount) to access the papers he has self-published. If unknown others are requesting for you to make payments in order to access the papers published by Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W, please refuse to make payments. Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W has never signed (nor will he ever sign) a binding written contract with anyone to have his written content redistributed in a manner that would place a paywall for people to access his published work. Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W has also never verbally agreed with anyone to have his written content redistributed in a manner that would place a paywall for people to access his published work.In his correspondence with the City of Los Angeles, California, Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W has learned that [1] the State of California passed the nation’s third eugenic sterilization law through which between 1909 and 1979 more than 20,000 Californians were sterilized; [2] California’s eugenics laws authorized medical superintendents in State homes and hospitals to perform “assexualization” (vasectomies for men and salpingectomies for women) on people identified as “affected with mental disease which may have been inherited and is likely to be transmitted to descendants, the various grades of feeblemindedness,” [3] the State of California maintained 12 State homes and hospitals, with very little oversight, that housed thousands of patients that were committed without proper consent during an era when reformers believed that sterilization was an important instrument of public health protection that would reduce the number of “defective” in society, result in cost savings for welfare programs, and only allow “fit” people to become parents; [4] labels of “mental deficiency” and “feeblemindedness” were applied disproportionately to racial and ethnic minorities, people with actual or perceived disabilities, low income people, and women. According to the Washington Post: “Eugenics was a pseudoscience promulgated in the 19th and 20th centuries aiming to improve human genetics. It was used in the United States to justify the forced hospitalization and sterilization of tens of thousands of people based on race, class and perceived ‘feeblemindedness’ and ‘moral delinquency,’ and later by the Nazis to justify the murder of millions of Jews, LGBT people and people with disabilities, among others. Between 1907 and 1979, more than 64,000 Americans were forcibly sterilized by state and local governments. (…) Most, but not all, of those sterilized were poor; most were White, though historians say racism and white supremacy were still driving motivators of these programs. (…) Carrie Buck was born into poverty in Charlottesville in 1906. Her father abandoned the family, and her mother was soon accused of “immorality” and committed to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded — essentially a work camp for White people the state didn’t like. Buck was separated from her siblings and sent to live with a wealthy foster family, who forced her to leave school during sixth grade and serve as a housekeeper in their home. When Buck was 17, she was raped by the nephew of her foster mother and became pregnant. Probably to save face, the family accused her of promiscuity and feeblemindedness, and in 1924, she was committed to the same colony as her mother. Her infant daughter was given to her foster mother. Officials at the colony decided Buck would be the perfect candidate for sterilization. They provided her with an attorney — an avowed eugenicist and friend of the colony director — to file a suit on her behalf. He did a pretty terrible job in court (something Spears’s supporters also allege about her former attorney, Samuel D. Ingham III), and when the case made it to the Supreme Court, he hardly said a thing. Lawyers for Virginia argued the state had a compelling interest in Buck’s ability to have children. In an 8-to-1 decision, the Supreme Court agreed, with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously declaring, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” (Many words now used as mild insults, such as “moron,” “imbecile,” and “idiot,” have a long history of being used as clinical diagnoses.) Buck, along with her mother and her sister, was subsequently sterilized by having her fallopian tubes cut and cauterized. Buck’s daughter died when she was 8…” As a matter of principle and as previously noted, the Association for the Advancement of Civil Liberties (AACL) unequivocally condemns violence committed against girls and women irrespective of their racial backgrounds, their sexual orientations, their national origins, their religious affiliations, their disability status and/or their age groups. It is the position of the AACL that [1] women should be able to carry a pregnancy to term if they wish to do so; [2] women should be free from harassment and other undue influence while pregnant; [3] women should be provided emotional, financial, medical and other adequate support if they wish to carry a pregnancy to term; [4] women should be provided emotional, financial, medical and other adequate support if they wish to have an abortion; [5] the decision to carry a pregnancy to term should be left to women as individuals; [6] the decision to have an abortion should be left to women as individuals; [7] women intent on getting an abortion will do so; [8] women are not innately sadists and masochists; [9] women intent on getting an abortion should have access to clinics accredited by the Joint Commission. Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W is responsible for the publications of the Association for the Advancement of Civil Liberties (AACL). Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W takes full-responsibility for the statements he has made in his publication entitled “About Carrie Buck and the Eugenics Movement: How Pseudoscience Dictates Reproductive Rights Policy in the United States of America (U.S.A).” Be well. Take care. Keep yourselves at arms distance. Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W Anti-Racist Human Rights Activist Audio-Visual Media Analyst Anti-Propaganda Journalist