La Operación

Duration: 40

Year Published: 1982

Creator: The Cinema Guild

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Over one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age have been sterilized. So common is the operation that it is simply called la operacion. Using newsreels and excerpts from government propaganda films, plus interviews with Puerto Rican women, doctors, birth control specialists, politicians and others, this documentary explores the controversial use of sterilization as social policy and a means of population control.