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From Prevention to Protection: Policy, Practice and Pitfalls of Surgical Sterilization in California, 1910–Present
In the history of involuntary sterilization in the United States, California stands out. Under the Asexualization Act (1909), a law which permitted the surgical sterilization of certain “defectives,” over 20,000 developmentally disabled and mentally ill people were forcibly sterilized. Although …
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Eugenic Sterilization in 20Th Century Georgia: From Progressive Utilitarianism to Individual Rights
… doctors, and young middle-class reformers. Sterilization for the purposes of removing defective genes from society was a critical part of the eugenics movement. Progressive reformers used eugenic doctrines combined with utilitarian political philosophy to divest individuals of the natural …