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During this time, feminists began advocating for reproductive choice, but eugenicists and hygienists were advocating for low-income and disabled peoples to be sterilized or have their fertility tightly regulated, in order to "clean" or "perfect" nations.
California eugenicists began producing literature promoting eugenics and sterilization and sending it overseas to German scientists and medical professionals. [16] By 1933, California had subjected more people to forceful sterilization than all other U.S. states combined.
The first state to introduce a compulsory sterilization bill was Michigan in 1897 – although the proposed law failed to garner enough votes by legislators to be adopted, it did set the stage for other sterilization bills. [38] Eight years later, Pennsylvania's state legislators passed a sterilization bill that was vetoed by the governor. [39]
The 2021-22 state budget package included funding $7.5 million for the California Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program legislation, [25] to begin Jan. 1, 2022, administered by the California Victim Compensation Board (CalVCB), for survivors of state-sponsored sterilization 1909 through 1979 [26] and survivors of involuntary ...
The Leprosy Prevention laws of 1907, 1931 and 1953, the last one only repealed in 1996, permitted the segregation of patients in sanitariums where forced abortions and sterilization were common, even if the laws did not refer to it, and authorized punishment of patients "disturbing peace", as most Japanese leprologists believed that ...
[24] In 1955, Congress had given IHS the responsibility of providing these health services, but at the time they did not have enough physicians to conduct safe and proper procedures. After raising the pay for physicians' wages, safety improved, and they began to provide birth control treatment which ultimately led to the practice of sterilization.
The sterilization law passed in Minnesota in 1925 stated that anyone of any age that was determined to be “feeble minded” was legally able to be sterilized, with or without permission. Around 1930, Minnesota began to be known as “the most feeble minded-conscious” state because of the way they care for the mentally disabled.
Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924; Birth control movement in the US; Canadian eugenics. The Famous Five; Sexual Sterilization Act; Japanese eugenics; Hispanic eugenics. Mexican eugenics; Swedish sterilization program (1906–1975) Peruvian sterilization program (1990–2000) Population planning in Singapore; Neo-eugenics. He Jiankui genome ...