Edwin Black wants you to know the truth about American eugenics.
In the early twentieth century, over 60,000 U.S. residents were sterilized in state institutions. The sterilizations were coercive and took place for an array of reasons. Some were sterilized because of their criminal activities, others because of low intelligence, still others because of perceived promiscuity.
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About two months ago, two veteran Charlotte Observer reporters set out to find Mecklenburg County victims of North Carolina’s eugenics program. State records show 485 people from Mecklenburg were sterilized in the program, which was most active from 1946 to 1968, so our reporters built a database, chased leads and, as of Friday, have been able to confirm none of those victims.
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Is it appropriate to involuntarily sterilize a mentally disabled person? That’s the question a British judge is mulling in the case of a 21-year-old, referred to as “P” in court documents, who is legally considered incapable of consenting to the procedure. She already has one child and another one is on the way. The woman’s mother has asked the court for permission to have “P” sterilized to prevent future pregnancies — she’s the one who has to take care of these children, after all, and she can’t afford to take on a third.
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WHEN her baby died soon after delivery, Gulbahor Zavidova, 28, a poor
farmer’s wife, longed to be pregnant again. After months of trying she
and her husband visited a doctor who told her she could never have
another child because she had been sterilised…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7107200.ece
Eugenics relied on a colossal misunderstanding of science and a savage misreading of history. William McDougall, a Harvard psychologist, believed that ignorance could be eradicated by encouraging people who could read to reproduce and forbidding those who couldn’t, as if this followed naturally from Mendel, with his peas, wrinkly and smooth. Madison Grant cobbled together Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, and Frederick Jackson Turner to write the history of Western civilization as the Nordic race’s epic battle for demographic supremacy.
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In 1968, at just 14 years old, Elaine became one of the thousands of victims of North Carolina’s forced sterilization program. Quietly and efficiently operating from 1929 until 1974, the program’s purpose was to weed out the “unfit” of society by stopping them from reproducing.
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RALEIGH – Secretary Britt Cobb today announced his appointment of Charmaine Fuller Cooper of Durham as Executive Director of the N.C. Justice for Victims of Sterilization Foundation, a new Division of the N.C. Department of Administration. She is scheduled to start on March 1.
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RICHMOND — State Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas says disabled children are God’s punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy.
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South Carolina’s Lt. Governor Andre Bauer, who is running for Governor of the state on the Republican ticket, said a bunch of monumentally stupid and ignorant things that would shock even the most cynical person at a luncheon the other day, like:
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It’s a situation too agonizing to contemplate — a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study
suggests that doctors may be giving fatal morphine doses to a few
children dying of cancer, to end their suffering at their parents’
request.
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