Eugenics?...

[Rockhopper]

Califonia Prisons sterilised women prisoners from 2006 to 2010 without the required permissions!!

Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, the Center for Investigative Reporting has found.

At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules during those five years – and there are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s, according to state documents and interviews.

From 1997 to 2010, the state paid doctors $147,460 to perform the procedure, according to a database of contracted medical services for state prisoners.

And Oregon...

Number of Victims
2,341 sterilizations are recorded to have occurred in the state of Oregon from 1921 until 1983 (Lombardo, p. 293). However, in governor John Kitzhaber's 2002 “Human Rights Day” apology on behalf of the state, it is noted that 2,648 people were sterilized (Josefson, p. 1). Of the 2,648 people accounted for, 1,713 (65%) were women and 935 (35%) were men. Victims, drawn mainly from state institutions like mental hospitals, facilities housing developmentally disabled persons, and prisons, were deemed mentally ill (about one third) or deficient, or in earlier time periods, “feeble-minded” (almost 60%).

Period During Which Sterilizations Occurred
The first Oregon Eugenics law was signed into law in 1917 and was utilized within the year (Eccleston, p. 2). No sterilizations were reported in 1922 because the 1917 law was nullified by the Marion County Circuit Court and the 1923 law had not yet been passed (Largent, p. 200). The rate of sterilizations was greatest during the 1920s and 1930s, yet substantial number of sterilizations did occur after the end of World War II (Paul, p. 460). The Oregon eugenics program continued to sterilize patients until the 1960s and the law continued to be used sparing after the 1960s until its repeal in 1983. Two hundred and seventeen patients were sterilized after 1967 (Largent, p. 206).

California from Here.

Oregon from Here

Who decides which person should reproduce and who should not? However one feels about crims in general, no-one should have that kind of power!

Tim.

[Kaere]

This should make your stomach turn as well...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Sterilization_Act_of_Alberta

Wasn't repealed until 1972.

[Agartha]

OMG........ disgusting...... and in California was done till 2010!!!!
Then they criticize dictators in the Middle East and North Korea?????

[Monk (in hiding)]

sterilize people on welfare.

[Stirky]

Terrible!!! Plus the fact it is not a simple operation and can cause a lot of complications too! I mean what crimes did these people commit to warrant them being sterilised?? Awful!

[Monk (in hiding)]

[kidding]useless eaters[/kidding]

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