“Over a 10-year period,” he told CIR, “that isn’t a huge amount of money compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children — as they procreated more.”. Some sought to do this through immigration restrictions designed to bar the racially inferior, others argued for killing mentally and physically defective children and still others favored forced sterilization. Maybe you think that makes perfect sense. She was a “feeble-minded” 17-year-old daughter of a “feeble-minded” mother and an unwed mother herself. It’s by Robert A. Wilson, professor of philosophy at La Trobe University in Australia, author of The Eugenic Mind Project. But Laughlin, after reviewing test results, claimed that she was typical of the “shiftless, ignorant and worthless class of anti-social whites of the South.” The court approved her sterilization 8-1. “It is better for the world,” wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. “As soon as he found out that I had five kids, he suggested that I look into getting it done. As Christina Cordero remembers it, the doctor would not take no for an answer. The closer I got to my due date, the more he talked about it. A recent Aeon article says just that. Delivered to your inbox every morning. But what if I told you that eugenic sterilization is still happening? A certain wealthy presidential candidate famously described them as the 47 percent of us who are irredeemable. Even the Nazis were impressed. She finally said yes, a decision she regrets seven years later. It relied on the testimony of an “expert,” Dr. Harry Hamilton Laughlin, who himself never met her. The Supreme Court sanctioned the latter in a 1927 ruling against Carrie Buck. As Christina Cordero remembers it, the doctor would not take no for an answer. It gets even closer to home. These “sterilization camps” in India were funded, in part, by USAID and the World Bank. It is contained in a troubling report, released last week, documenting that the California prison system sterilized as many as 250 women from 1997 to 2010, in violation of state rules. It’s by Robert A. Wilson, professor of philosophy at La Trobe University in Australia, author of The Eugenic Mind Project. He made me feel like a bad mother if I didn’t do it.”. The court never met her. By Aviva Shen Sept 18, 2020 5:41 PM Forced Sterilization Is Still Happening, Is Still Repugnant, Refusing To Condemn Violent Extremism, Trump Feigned Ignorance Of QAnon, Election Expert Says Florida County Could Be Early Indicator On Election Night, Caroline Giuliani, Daughter Of Rudy, Endorses Biden To ‘End This Nightmare’, Republicans Sabotage Democracy To Preserve Their Power, Rudy's Latest Variation On The Same Dirty Trick That Got Trump Impeached, The Destructive Cult That’s Eating The Republican Party Alive, Carville Predicts Broad Patriotic Front Will Bring Trump’s ‘Catastrophic Defeat’, Kudlow Hails Mass Unemployment As ‘Gales Of Creative Destruction’, At NBC Town Hall, Angry Trump Praises QAnon And Lies About Mail Ballots, People Around The World Pity Americans Because of Trump. He wanted to sterilize her. … Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” That ruling has never been overturned. The upcoming documentary Human Zoos discusses similar consequences of a Darwinian view of humanity and shows how it continues to influence our outlook today. From the article he links to, it appears some of these findings were confirmed by the state auditor: “Of the 144 tubal ligations performed on inmates from fiscal years 2005-06 to 2012-13, auditors found, more than a quarter — 39 — were done without lawful consent, according to the report by State Auditor Elaine Howle.”. The ongoing eugenic sterilisation of people with disabilities, prisoners, poor people, people from certain racialised ethnic groups and indigenous people (especially women) affects precisely the same sorts of people explicitly targeted by eugenics before 1945. America Has Lost 200,000 Lives — How Many More Must Die? They result from continuing and new eugenics pipelines. Buck was, in fact, a Virginia girl of normal intelligence who had been raped.
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