Forced+Sterilization

Forced Sterilization History The starting of forced sterilization in the United States was first introduced for the purpose of eugenics; the people that were targeted were the mentally retarded and the mentally ill. However, under many states other people, like the deaf, blind, and the physically deformed, were also sterilized. In southern states, like North Carolina, many southern black women were sterilized without their knowledge during hospital visits for other reasons. North Carolina was the third state, behind Virginia and California, with the most forced sterilization. The idea of forced sterilization first originated in the hope of creating the “perfect society”, rubbing off onto the Nazi Germany party who then went on to sterilize over 400,000 women and men. The horrific number of people sterilized all over the world is eye opening and astonishing, not only to find out that forced sterilization is still happening in 13 other countries still today. Autumn Hileman http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/forcedsterilization.html