Its good for Americans to remember or learn the idiotic things that were done in the name of State security in the recent past: Americans, who fancied themselves a chosen people and whose blood has always run hot on matters of utopia, actually implemented the plans based on the theory of eugenics. In 1907, Indiana passed “the first sterilization law in human history,” Bruinius writes, and “in the next two decades, the United States became the pioneer in state-sanctioned programs to rid society of the ‘unfit.’” At least 30 states enacted similar laws, and sterilization became routine. California, which ran the most aggressive program, sterilized more than 2,500 people in a 10-year period; in all, more than 65,000 Americans were rendered infertile.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:09:40 +0000
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