Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, refers to any government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific...

traits. The legal basis for compulsory sterilization in Canada can be traced back to the passage of the Sexual Sterilization Act in Alberta in 1928. This...

permanent sterilization; tying elected abortion to compulsory sterilization (cannot receive a sought out abortion without "consenting" to sterilization); using...

communities. Compulsory sterilization is the unwanted and/or nonconsensual sterilization of both men and women. The main form of sterilization for women...

women were misled into believing that the sterilization procedure was reversible. In other cases, sterilization was performed without the adequate understanding...

Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection...

unable to reproduce. Sterilization methods include both surgical and non-surgical options for both males and females. Sterilization procedures are intended...

through sterilization were included in Plan Verde, a covert military operation created to establish a neoliberal military junta. Compulsory sterilization, which...

active individuals influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation. Harry Hamilton Laughlin was born March 11, 1880, in...

administration of President Alberto Fujimori, Peru implemented a forced sterilization campaign as part of the National Population Program, primarily targeting...

Roma woman who was the victim of forced sterilization in a state hospital in Slovakia in 2000. Forced sterilization in the United States was practiced starting...

choice. Forced sterilization was permissible by multiple states throughout various periods in the 20th century. Issues of state sterilization have persisted...

Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden were sterilisations which were carried out in Sweden, without a valid consent of the subject, during the years 1906–2013...

decline. During the time the Sexual Sterilization Act was in effect, 4,800 cases were proposed for sterilization in the Province of Alberta, of which...

Eugenics biased sterilization in the United States refers to the practice of forcibly or coercively sterilizing individuals—primarily women—based on their...

Virginia could sterilize individuals under the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924. The most significant era of eugenic sterilization was between 1907...

The Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 was a U.S. state law in Virginia for the sterilization of institutionalized persons "afflicted with hereditary forms...

Rheinlandbastarde were persecuted. They were rounded up in a campaign of compulsory sterilization. The term "Rhineland bastard" can be traced to 1919, just after...

genes of those deemed mentally ill were undesirable was used to justify sterilization which was frequently supervised by physicians, including psychiatrists...

that forced sterilization of ethnic Uyghurs persisted since the 1980s. Since 2014, there was an indication for a sharp increase in sterilization of Uyghur...

States Supreme Court ruling that held that laws permitting the compulsory sterilization of criminals are unconstitutional as it violates a person's rights...

Racial Hygiene in 1905. The movement advocated selective breeding, compulsory sterilization, and a close alignment of public health with eugenics. Racial hygiene...

Court case Buck v. Bell, after having been ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded" by her foster parents after...

Alexandra Minna (May 2018). "Disproportionate Sterilization of Latinos Under California's Eugenic Sterilization Program, 1920–1945". American Journal of Public...

proponent of racial segregation and eugenics, specifically, the compulsory sterilization of the mentally ill. Joseph DeJarnette was born on his family's...

court-ordered sterilization, did not directly lead to any specific legislative changes, but increased public awareness and scrutiny of sterilization practices...

Sterilization law is the area of law, that concerns a person's purported right to choose or refuse reproductive sterilization and when a given government...

had subjected more people to forceful sterilization than all other U.S. states combined. The forced sterilization program engineered by the Nazis was partly...

the sterilization drive of the government of India during Indira Gandhi's ruling period. Each character in the film is trying to find sterilization cases...

combined with a eugenics program that aimed for "racial hygiene" by compulsory sterilization and extermination of those who they saw as Untermenschen ("sub-humans")...