Compulsory sterilization. Medical search. Frequent questions

Rationalizations for compulsory sterilization have included eugenics, population control, gender discrimination, limiting the spread of HIV, "gender-normalizing" surgeries for intersex people, and ethnic genocide. (wikipedia.org)
Early population programs of the 20th century were marked as part of the eugenics movement, with Nazi Germany's programs providing the most well-known examples of sterilization of disabled people, paired with encouraging ethnic Germans who fit the "Aryan race" phenotype to rapidly reproduce. (wikipedia.org)
A few years later in 1934 the American Eugenics Society published the Case for Sterilization, a book that piqued the interest of the Fuhrer himself. (freerepublic.com)
Eugenics-based forced-sterilization law approved by Washington Governor Louis F. Hart on March 8, 1921. (historylink.org)
Supporters of eugenics and sterilization hoped the case would reach the Supreme Court and that the Court would find sterilization constitutional. (teachingamericanhistory.org)
Sterilization continued as a legal regime even after eugenics ceased to be a popular movement. (teachingamericanhistory.org)
A survey of eugenics in action begins with isolated incidents such as the sterilization of the mentally ill by American health officials in the late 1800's and the castration of children at the Pennsylvania Training School for Feebleminded Children in 1889. (illuminati-news.com)
The National Conference on Race Betterment was convened in United States in 1914, while by 1917 fifteen American states had eugenics laws on the books, almost all of them legalizing the sterilization of habitual criminals, epileptics, the insane, and the retarded. (illuminati-news.com)
H.H. Laughlin, the Expert Eugenics Agent of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Immigration and Naturalization presented a Model Sterilization Law in 1922. (illuminati-news.com)
In 1928 the American Eugenics Society sponsored a contest for essays on the caused of decline in Nordic fertility, while Dr. Robie, at the Third International Congress of Eugenics, called for the sterilization of 14,000,000 Americans with low intelligence scores. (illuminati-news.com)
The shocking results of the eugenics program included laws against so-called mixed-race marriages in 27 states, human breeding programs, forced sterilization of over 60,000 US citizens and even euthanasia. (creation.com)

Hannity claimed that White House science and technology adviser John Holdren "advocated compulsory abortion" and sterilization. (mediamatters.org)
The China on this planet has a compulsory one-child policy, enforced by forced sterilizations and abortion. (jillstanek.com)
Abortion and sterilization ensure they don't have one. (jillstanek.com)
Choosing when or if to have a child is a fundamental right, which includes both the right to procreate and the right to undergo abortion or sterilization. (nlg.org)
These adults must rely on their legal guardians to consent to or refuse medical procedures, such as abortion or sterilization. (nlg.org)
however, a path must also be available for adults under guardianship who seek abortion or sterilization. (nlg.org)

Despite the opposition it faced, eugenic sterilization remained alive in part because of the Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell , which found constitutional the sterilization of Carrie Buck by the State of Virginia. (teachingamericanhistory.org)
During that time, several of the remaining twentieth-century eugenic sterilization statutes have finally been repealed, and reparations to sterilization survivors have been paid in two states. (jhu.edu)

Holmes wrote the flawed Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell that put the legal stamp of approval on compulsory sterilization. (freerepublic.com)
Before the statute is ruled unconstitutional by the Washington State Supreme Court in 1941, the forced sterilization of 685 men and women will be documented. (historylink.org)
In 1927, the Supreme Court ruled that compulsory sterilization of "unfit" people was constitutional, and the decision still technically stands. (glennbeck.com)
Thirty-one states eventually had sterilization programs, often adopting the language of the Virginia legislation that the Supreme Court approved, which had been drafted by a lawyer to increase its chances of meeting legal scrutiny. (teachingamericanhistory.org)
Law professor and historian Paul Lombardo does a superb job of revealing, for the first time, all the facts in the infamous Buck v. Bell case of the 1920s, the Supreme Court decision ratifying Virginia's compulsory sterilization of 'feebleminded' people. (jhu.edu)

Indiana passed the first compulsory sterilization law in 1907, although other states had tried and failed before. (teachingamericanhistory.org)
In 1907, the United States passed a compulsory sterilization law to prevent unwanted characteristics in people from being carried on to the next generation. (softschools.com)
By 1907 in America, Indiana passed compulsory sterilization for the mentally ill and other 'undesirables,' while 475 males received vasectomies at the Indiana State Reformatory. (illuminati-news.com)

Several countries implemented sterilization programs in the early 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
About three-fifths of the states, including California, enforced some type of compulsory sterilization during the 20th century. (momsrising.org)

in the opinion of this House, the Government should give further consideration to the potentialities of voluntary sterilisation for hereditary defectives in accordance with the unanimous recommendations of the Departmental Committee that reported to the Minister of Health on 8th January, 1934. (parliament.uk)
I'm not aware of any law to protect hereditary health, listing those who qualify for compulsory sterilisation - schizophrenics, depressives, the hereditary blind and the deaf. (timesofisrael.com)

Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of 'racial quality,' maintaining that 'Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations' and that 'except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control. (illuminati-news.com)

The report references the involuntary sterilization of a number of specific population groups. (wikipedia.org)
Though Buck set the stage for more than sixty thousand involuntary sterilizations in the United States and was cited at the Nuremberg trials in defense of Nazi sterilization experiments, it has never been overturned. (jhu.edu)

The enthusiastic cooperation between scientists, scholars and Nazi officials began in earnest with the program of forced sterilization. (usf.edu)

Yesterday, the Public Safety Committee of the California State Senate held a hearing to gather information on unethical and illegal sterilizations of women in the state prison system. (momsrising.org)

Sterilizations increased and did not cease until the 1960s. (teachingamericanhistory.org)

As North Carolina becomes the first state to agree to provide financial compensation to people who suffered under government-run sterilization programs, the California Legislature is finally grappling with reports of modern-day sterilization abuse in its prison system. (momsrising.org)

Widespread or systematic enforced sterilization is a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court . (cornell.edu)

Sterilization removes a person's capacity to reproduce, and is usually done through surgical procedures. (wikipedia.org)
Sterilization, which usually involves surgical procedures, eliminates a person's ability to procreate. (cornell.edu)

Federal and state courts regularly found forced sterilization laws unconstitutional because they were cruel and unusual punishments or because the application of the laws denied equal treatment. (teachingamericanhistory.org)

In some countries, transgender individuals are required to undergo sterilization before gaining legal recognition of their gender, a practice that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment has described as a violation of the Yogyakarta Principles. (wikipedia.org)
As of 2013, 24 countries in Europe required sterilization for legal gender recognition and 16 countries did not provide for any possibility to change legal gender at all, which meant that transgender people could have challenges applying for jobs, opening bank accounts, boarding planes, or may not be able to do these things at all. (wikipedia.org)
One component of the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) decision to list the legal powerhouse organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) as an anti-LGBT hate group is the substance of their work abroad, which has recently included defending - albeit unsuccessfully - European laws requiring the sterilization of transgender citizens seeking administrative recognition of their preferred gender. (splcenter.org)

The World Bank loaned India $66 million for sterilization efforts in the 1970s. (capitalresearch.org)
Back in the 1970s, for example, she took on the Indian government's sterilisation drive during the 21-month state of emergency in India that ran from 1975 to 1977. (thenationalnews.com)

That led to sterilizations, and sterilizations led to the child euthanasia program, which in turn led to the adult euthanasia program. (bu.edu)

The sterilization program in North Carolina lasted until 1977. (teachingamericanhistory.org)

Interestingly, Corrections Director Alameida declined to participate in the hearing, saying that the prison system had no records of sterilizations. (prisonfellowship.org)

While prejudices differed slightly by region, the solutions to the social crisis were marriage restriction, segregation, sterilization, and immigration restriction. (freerepublic.com)
In regard to the latter, Sanger favored beliefs about hospitalization, sterilization, and preventing the immigration of disabled, "feebleminded", etc. groups of people. (feminist.org)

One finds that most of the opposition to the idea of sterilisation comes from people who have not read that report. (parliament.uk)

The French sterilization law was the result of a 1990 ECtHR decision (based on a 1982 petition) that ruled the state must provide proper identification for transgender citizens. (splcenter.org)

Enforced sterilization, also known as compulsory sterilization, refers to forcibly sterilizing an ethnic group as part of a systematic attack against that ethnic group. (cornell.edu)

While the court lacks a strong enforcement mechanism, the ruling sets a new legal guideline for all 47 countries party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), including 20 that still have sterilization laws on the books. (splcenter.org)

Changing the name or gender on a government-issued document like a driver's license has long included a frightening step for transgender people in almost two dozen European countries: mandatory sterilization. (splcenter.org)
Gay and transgender activists in Europe have argued for years that the sterilization requirement was an institutionalized violation of human rights, and last week the European Court of Human Rights agreed. (splcenter.org)

Although such programs have been made illegal in most countries of the world, instances of forced or coerced sterilizations persist. (wikipedia.org)
citation needed] Much of these governmental population control programs were focused on using sterilization as the main avenue to reduce high birth rates, even though public acknowledgement that sterilization made an impact on the population levels of the developing world is still widely lacking. (wikipedia.org)

Funding of mothers on welfare by HEW (Health, Education, and Welfare) covers roughly 90% of cost and doctors are likely to concur with the compulsory sterilization of mothers on welfare. (wikipedia.org)
James Heinrich, an OB/GYN who worked at Valley State Prison for Women, told Johnson that the cost of the sterilizations "isn't a huge amount of money compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children - as they procreated more. (momsrising.org)
The cost of the sterilizations is a good deal "compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children-as they procreated more. (prisonfellowship.org)

In response, the state created a system "whereby the change of gender on documents was only available to trans people who went through a very specific medical setting, leading to genital surgery and sterilization. (splcenter.org)
Among other issues, the legislators and witnesses discussed the state corrections department regulation that explicitly prohibits sterilization unless "medically necessary. (momsrising.org)
Not only does Heinrich assume that any children imprisoned women might have in the future would be unwanted, he justifies circumventing policies against sterilization as saving the state money - exactly the type of dehumanizing rationale that policymakers and courts repudiated more than 30 years ago. (momsrising.org)
This would at once supersede all the rulings of state courts against sterilization. (teachingamericanhistory.org)

They testified about internment camps, persecution, forced labor, torture, rape, the compulsory sterilization of women and forced contraception, forced separation of children from their parents, destruction of cultural and religious heritage, and organ harvesting by Chinese authorities against Uyghurs and other Turkic groups in Xinjiang. (voanews.com)

Particularly in the Scandinavian countries but also in the United States, many members of the medical establishments and scientific elites supported compulsory sterilization of those population groups deemed racially and socially inferior. (usf.edu)

This second requirement is often referred to as the "sterilization requirement," but this label does not in fact quite capture the drastic nature of the requirement: ordinary sterilization techniques used for family planning purposes do not suffice, since in principle these are reversible. (splcenter.org)
Sterilisation techniques, media and cultivation. (lu.se)

He also calls upon them to outlaw forced or coerced sterilization in all circumstances and provide special protection to individuals belonging to marginalized groups. (wikipedia.org)

A human rights organization called Justice Now has been working for years to document and expose the sterilizations. (momsrising.org)

Following a national uproar about the sterilizations, federal law bans inmate sterilizations if federal funds are used, reflecting concerns that prisoners might feel pressured to comply. (prisonfellowship.org)

From the beginning, Buck's sterilization was intended to be a test case. (teachingamericanhistory.org)

The lower Virginia court found no grounds to block the sterilization. (teachingamericanhistory.org)

Examination takes place through a written examination at the end of the course, and participation in compulsory parts. (lu.se)

In the 1900s, eugenicists used the test to judge people for sterilization. (businessinsider.com)

President Lyndon Johnson refused to provide food to the famished country until it agreed to incentivize sterilization . (capitalresearch.org)

Most of us thought such barbaric practices as compulsory sterilization were a thing of the past. (prisonfellowship.org)

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