[PEN-L:12018] forced sterilization

[James Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Burgess writes: >The report I heard on this said the Nazis (in
Germany) modeled their law on Swedish practice, not vice versa.<

really? well they may both have gotten the practice from the USA, where
such sterilization was practiced in the 1920s (and more recently against
unpopular poor minority women, as part of a birth-control effort). As I
understand it, in many ways the US is the original home of the eugenics
movement.

in pen-l solidarity,

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