Compulsory sterilization

Sexual Racism can be seen in medicine starting in the 1900’s. In 1907, the first forced sterilization laws went into effect in Indiana (Rivard 1). These laws lasted for around 40 years, in which many of the “undesirable” populations were subject to forced sterilizations to “better the population”. Minorities and the poor where specifically targeted, especially Native women in America (Jarvenpa 18). It was not uncommon for a woman to go into a hospital to deliver a child, and to leave sterile.…

laws that required sterilization of various criminals, mentally ill patients, epileptics, alcoholics, and people that were poor (Largent, 2011). All of this effort was exerted to prevent undesirable children from being born. It was justified by the assumption that these unfit people aren’t capable of adequate parenting; therefore their offspring could be a financial burden on society. Strong ideals and goals were the weapons chosen by eugenicists to get involuntary sterilization legalized. For…

Sterilization of women and young girls with disabilities has always been a subject that many people have different opinions about. Forced sterilization is happening in countries such as India and Australia. In those two countries they forced sterilization upon women and girls with disabilities. Although they do this is without consent, they say it is for the female’s safety. There are parents or family members of disabled girls that are all for sterilizing the disabled female, so that she would…

creating an object free of bacteria or other living organism, through surgery to make a person or animal unable to produce offspring. In July of 1933, the Eugenics Board of North Carolina was organized with 5 rotating members, which lead to the sterilizations in the state four months later and would remain active until 1977. Roughly 5 decades of sterilizing occurred in an estimate of 7,600 individuals. The Board members’ positions were the Commissioner of Public Welfare, the Attorney General,…

Hospital for a violation of their civil and constitutional rights by forcible sterilization. These women claimed that they were either coerced into signing the sterilization consent forms, signed them under duress, could not read the English consent forms, or were not given any consent forms at all. Representatives Antonia Hernandez and Charles Nabarrete argued that the plaintiffs were targeted for forcible sterilization because of their Mexican identity. I will use Madrigal v Quilligan as a…

synthesizing the information I have gathered from articles written by professionals in the medical field to discuss how to properly sterilize an area of the body in preparation for injections or incisions. Before any sterilization actually occurs on the skin, first the person performing the sterilization must thoroughly wash…

incentives are ‘Payments for Sterilization in Developing Countries’ this would offer men and women large monthly payments if they were sterilized, which would reduce the birth…

1.5 laparoscopes per trained team, the laparoscope is a very valued, but at the same time scarce commodity. The same laparoscope is often re-used in an effort to perform as many sterilizations as possible while there is still adequate light, water, or surgical team presence, and therefore proper instrument sterilization and cleaning procedures are often not followed. Even though there is no known data linking this kind of procedure to an increase in infections or post-operation side effects,…

In order to ensure the safety of users of the Nachsicht device, it will go through a series of rigorous testing to assess its biocompatibility and ability to be sterilized. As the materials used in the Nachsicht, polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) and graphene, have been used in other biomedical applications, the host response to the device is highly predictable. Various options for sterilizing the device will be assessed. The tests will be performed in vitro and in vivo before proceeding to…

Should You Spay and Neuter Your Pets? How many offspring are cats able to have in one year? Cats are able to have three litters a year and with possibly 4 to 6 kittens per litter (Burke Connie). I know that might not sound like a lot, but theoretically a cat and her offspring are able to produce an outstanding 420,000 cats in seven years (Burke Connie). Most people have seen stray cats and dogs running around which causes an overpopulation of unwanted pets. Most of them will be euthanized and…