Compulsory sterilization

During the past ten years, homeschooling has been steadily growing, driven by parents who want more control over what their children are learning. All fifty states recognize homeschooling as a legal alternative to traditional school, though education requirements vary by state (Sullivan 1). The growing popularity of homeschooling are scheduling is reinforced by test scores that show these children perform as well as children receiving conventional schooling, if not better (American Legion 1).…

I will briefly describe each below, and I will discuss some issues and their current resolution to them. • Private Freedoms: Religion and Compulsory School Attendance- In early American education attendance wasn’t strictly enforced. However, today compulsory attendance is strictly upheld thanks to laws like No Child Left Behind. In the past, parochial schools feared mandatory school attendance laws would ruin them. Some filed lawsuits seeking to…

Two friends, living next door to one another are about to embark on their third year of school, Thomas enters a classroom filled with 24 new classmates in his overcrowded and underfunded elementary school, while his friend Jeremy starts his third year of homeschooling with his mother. Thomas' teacher, even with an aide, struggles to settle all the children down for their first day; learning names and assigning seats as they spend their time just organizing the mass. Jeremy settles down in a…

hand in creating an ignorant population. Past events such as compulsory sterilization, Japanese internment camps and residential schools showcases the mistreatment of minorities based off…

Researchers during that time believe that genetic makeup of criminality or “bad gene” are passed down and was the root of criminal tendencies in society. The federal Eugenics Record Office funded studies of bad gene and develop policies that called for sterilization of mentally handicapped women to prevent…

Finland had compulsory sterilization and castration laws through 1970 and Finland alone sterilized over 50,000 people between 1955 and 1970. These laws primarily focused on sterilizing mentally ill and mentally or developmentally disabled persons, but this was determined via I.Q. test in many jurisdictions, so people who were not fluent in English and others who did not perform well on the tests but were not disabled were also sterilized under these laws. In 1990, eugenic sterilization laws…

a wide range of different social and political causes. As a result of the ambiguity of the movement, the different forms the movement took didn’t agree in the methods they abide either, in order to promote their goals. Some were against compulsory sterilization while others unfortunately strongly favored it. As it is clearly evident, the history of genetics doesn’t provide a clear picture or direct guidance for modern participants in order to classify it. Generally, Eugenics is seen as a…

Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. He states, “Attempts to separate eugenics from the Nazi program of race improvement were only partially successful. The personal and ideological links between eugenics and mass sterilization and extermination were too obvious to be overlooked.” Indeed, the two movements were linked, and this relationship influenced the racial policies of Nazi Germany. He concludes that “Nevertheless, the involvement of American eugenicists…

has developed historically over time. There has been a debate on whether incentivized sterilization and project prevention is safer for our society or whether it may do more harm than good. Throughout this paper I will examine the notions of black and poor women’s reproductive liberty and its relation to Roberts and Collins work, I will explore Project Prevention and its similarities to incentivized sterilization while explaining my opinion and whether this organization is helpful or dangerous. …

It is difficult to discuss sterilization and euthanasia in regards to the Nazi Party without also explaining the ideology of the party in regards to race science. Race science in the 21st century is now regarded as pseudoscience, used to validate or support views that are deemed racist. Unfortunately, Germany, and other nations of the time, viewed race science with confidence, and with this science as a basis, Germany euthanized or sterilized thousands of people to clean itself of impure races…