Sterilization

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…

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…

basic human rights is Australia is forced sterilization. The act of forced sterilization is considered illegal, but it still happening and needs to be stopped. The first step in stopping this is to understand what sterilization is, who it affects, and how it affects them. The first step in putting a stop to forced sterilization is understanding what sterilization is. Sterilization is “the act or procedure of sterilizing or making sterile” (sterilization, 2013). In the medical field,…

Sterilization, the act of removing a woman's ability to have a child, has been a way for the government to exert control and has been throughout history. Globally, sterilization was used as a way to control social behavior, but most practices have been abolished in the 20th century as they the impacts on the victims were discovered. In contrast, Australia allows the practice to continue presently despite the controversy surrounding the topic and the several human rights violations they are…

Noted in supreme court cases, Relf v. Weinberger and Buck v. Bell, re-examining compulsory sterilization is pivotal in dismantling discrimination against women. Particularly affecting women of color, the multi-form occurrence is slowly moving into public consciousness along with the effects of settler colonialism. Depopulating foreign land through strategic movements, settler colonialists have been and continue to be clever as far as their tactics to establish political systems. Purposed to…

Ever since the Sterilization Act was first introduced in 1928 here in Canada, it has been an important part of the health care program mainly around the two western provinces which had an impact. Although today, many people are still unfamiliar with the Sterilization Act and the effect on such Canadians. Many survivors have come forward and have spoken out about what they have gone through. After watching of them tell their stories online, the conclusion comes to that they have all thought about…

Eugenics is a type of science that manipulates mankind by the sterilization of incompetent people with intentions to improve the value of our society. In the mid 1800’s Charles Darwin’s natural selection gave pathway to eugenics. More of the science behind eugenics began to develop in 1902 on the Cold Spring Harbor Campus by a professor know as Charles B. Davenport (Farber, 2008). Mr. Davenport began the study of biological study on evolution on animals which eventually evolved to the study of…

The science of eugenics began in the twentieth century by the Franci Galton who coined the idea that favorable characteristics in humans were hereditary. These desirable traits were seen to be prominent in the superior classes thus, sterilizing women of inferior traits to prevent her from spoiling the chances of the master race. This master race consisted of those with high intelligence, fair skin tones, desirable physical characteristics, and not a descendent of a minority background. This form…

often founded and funded by rich caucasian males, became a matter of legislature through the passing of immigration restriction, marriage and sterilization laws. Reaching it’s peak of influence during the decade following 1910, eugenics became “unfashionable” following the publication of the negative eugenics employed by the Nazi party through the sterilization of 300,000-400,000 Jews and the horrors of concentration camps. While the eugenics movement was reaching its height in the 1910s as was…

highly “gifted” people through the process of selective breeding. In 1914, the Model Sterilization Law was created which declared that the “socially inadequate” should be sterilized. Pedigree charts were used to demonstrate and predict the inheritance of genetic traits. In 1922, this model was added in the book Eugenical Sterilization in the United states which contained material and statistics of sterilization. Adolf Hitler also incorporated the idea of eugenics in 1925. He supported eugenic…