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Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, refers to any government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific group of people. Sterilization removes a person's capacity to reproduce, and is usually done by surgical or chemical means.
The sterilization law passed in Minnesota in 1925 stated that anyone of any age that was determined to be “feeble minded” was legally able to be sterilized, with or without permission. Around 1930, Minnesota began to be known as “the most feeble minded-conscious” state because of the way they care for the mentally disabled.
Between the span of the 1930s to the 1970s, nearly one-third of the female population in Puerto Rico was sterilized; at the time, this was the highest rate of sterilization in the world. [113] Some viewed sterilization as a means of rectifying the country's poverty and unemployment rates.
The forced sterilization program engineered by the Nazis was partly inspired by California's. [ 2 ] In 1927, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology ( KWIA ), an organization which concentrated on physical and social anthropology as well as human genetics, was founded in Berlin with significant financial support from the American ...
In Nazi Germany many people were forced into sterilization by Nazis who believed in race purity and their right to enforce it. Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 15,000 deaf people were forced into sterilization. The youngest victim being only 9 years old, nearly 5,000 children up to the age of 16 were sterilized.
In the first year of the law's operation, 1934, 84,600 cases were brought to Genetic Health Courts, with 62,400 forced sterilisations. [5] Nearly 4,000 people appealed against the decisions of sterilisation authorities; 3,559 of the appeals failed. [6] In 1935, it was 88,100 trials and 71,700 sterilizations. [5]
During the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazi regime used forced sterilization on hundreds of thousands of people whom they viewed as mentally ill, an estimated 400,000 between 1934 and 1937. The scale of the Nazi program prompted one American eugenics advocate to seek an expansion of their program, with one complaining that "the Germans are beating us ...
Ann was the child of Peter Cooper Hewitt and Marion (aka Maryon) Jeanne Andrews.. Peter Cooper Hewitt died in 1921. His will left two-thirds of his estate to Ann and one-third to her mother Marion; however, if Ann died without an heir, her portion of her father's estate would revert to her mother.