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No Más Bebés: Cut the Birth Rate

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary No Más Bebés, the head of L.A. County-USC Medical Center, Dr. James Quilligan, denies accusations that his directive was "to cut the birth rate of Negro and Mexican population,” despite some evidence to the contrary.

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