Eugenics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eugenics is the study of, or belief in, the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defe...
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Eugenic Sterilization Laws ... A number of American physicians performed sterilizations even before the surgery was legally approved, though no reliable accounting of the practice exists prior to passage of sterilization laws. Indiana enacted the first law allowing sterilization on eugenic grounds in 1907,
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invention content page ... Eugenic sterilization laws legalizing the involuntary sterilization of the mentally ill, criminals, and other defectives, came to being in close to thirty states with more than 70,000 Americans losing the ability to reproduce by the mid-twentieth century.
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Eugenic sterilization in California was based on three acts of the California legislature, which were passed in 1909, 1913, and 1917. The progression of legislation ... California's eugenic sterilization legislation in 1909, 1913 and 1917 called for the sterilization of various classes of mental defectives and criminals.
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The Sterilization of America: A Cautionary History ... In 1907, Indiana became the first state to pass a law permitting involuntary sterilizations on eugenic grounds; ... Lombardo, P.A. 1982. "Eugenic Sterilization in Virginia: Aubrey Strode and the Case of Buck v. Bell." Doctoral dissertation, University of Virginia.
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PART ONE: North Carolina's eugenic sterilization program continued after most other states stopped theirs. By the time the program ended, more than 7600 people were sterilized.Included is the story of Elaine Riddick Jessie.
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Many people are unaware that Hitler's extermination policies began with the large-scale elimination of people with disabilities. Proponents of physician- ... Kennedy, F. (1942). The problem of social control of the congenital defective - Education, sterilization, euthanasia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 99, 13-16.
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As I did my research, I learned a lot about how the law had changed, and why, and I was pleased to learn that eugenic sterilization had been thoroughly discredited. A later Supreme Court decision even prohibited sterilization of convicted criminals.
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www.markwelch.com/buckbell.htm
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Pringle, H. Alberta barren. Saturday Night, June, 1997, pp. 30-74. [popular magazine article on the Alberta experience with eugenic sterilization] ;
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