Events Tagged: "sterilization"

Indiana passes first state sterilization law; Dr. Harry Clay Sharp advocates: 'We make choice of the best rams for our sheep... how careful then should we be in begetting of children!'

Committee to Cut Off Defective Germ-Plasm formed, targeting ten groups including the feebleminded, criminals, and epileptics

American eugenics movement provides model for Nazi racial policies; Harry Laughlin's model sterilization law becomes basis for Nazi legislation

Denmark passes sterilization law

Supreme Court Justice Holmes: 'The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes' (Buck v. Bell)

Virginia raids - Sheriffs conduct systematic sweeps in Brush Mountain region; Over 8,000 Virginians sterilized

Nazi Law for the Prevention of Defective Progeny - 400,000 Germans immediately targeted

Nazi Hereditary Health Law passed, directly based on American eugenic sterilization models

Norway and Sweden pass sterilization laws

Nazi Germany sterilizing 5,000+ per month, known as 'Hitlerschnitte' (Hitler's cut)

Canada completes sterilization program - 2,822 people sterilized in Alberta alone

Virginia governor formally apologizes for eugenic sterilizations