Explore: Eugenic Sterilization

Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, refers to any government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific

significant era of eugenic sterilization was between 1907 and 1963, when over 64,000 individuals were forcibly sterilized under eugenic legislation in the

nontherapeutic sterilization via parens patriae jurisdiction, since a surgical sterilization is an irreversible procedure. Although eugenic sterilization was never

unable to reproduce. Sterilization methods include both surgical and non-surgical options for both males and females. Sterilization procedures are intended

eliminate, through sterilization or segregation, those deemed physically, mentally, or morally undesirable. This includes abortions, sterilization, and other

As a result, Laughlin drafted the Model Eugenical Sterilization Law, a model act for compulsory sterilization, intended to obviate these difficulties

approval of the Prefectural Eugenic Protection Council. In addition to hereditary conditions, some doctors believed forced sterilization on normal mental patients

Eugenics researcher Harry H. Laughlin often bragged that his Model Eugenic Sterilization laws had been implemented in the 1935 Nuremberg racial hygiene laws

and worked to enforce more eugenic sterilization of these women. In 1973 an investigation by progressive anti-sterilization advocacy groups discovered

legislation. The German Sterilization Law was affected by the California sterilization law and modelled after the Model Eugenic Sterilization Law but was more