Eugenics

Hey Guys lets study about forced sterilization! woo!

By: Ciara Fox

Statistics:  Paul Lombardo

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 * By 1924 83% of the forced sterilization was done in California.
 * Indiana was the first state to begin eugenics in 1907
 * Did not become widespread until 1920s
 * A 17 year old was the first to be sterilized
 * 13 states permitted law of sterilizing criminals in 1942
 * Up until the mid-1970s mentally ill or challenged at one time there were 33 states that sterilized up to 60,00 Americans

 "Forced Sterilizations" [|http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/forcedsterilization.html]
 * 400,00 were sterilized in Nazi Germany both men and women
 * Sweden sterilized 63,000 (mostly women)
 * 800,000 men and women in Japan were sterilized
 * 11,000 women in Finland

By: Lydia Cupit
 * Sterilization Hurts: Physically and Emotionally**

What is sterilization? Sterilization of women is when they cut through the abdomen, skin and muscle, and then the surgeon would cut and tie, cut or burn, their tubes so the eggs wouldn't reach the uterus. The operation was very painful and people would go home with a sore abdomen and "would be OK (in a few weeks)" (Brown). That was in the Past. Now they have a surgery that will leave "smaller scars and a less complication of infection" (Deaver). The new technique is called laparoscopy. Doctors will make small incisions and insert a tiny camera, so they can do the procedure without such a major incision. There are many risks of the surgery like ectopic pregnancy, which is when the fetus is outside of the uterus. Also the risks of a bowel or blood vessel puncture. The male version of sterilization is a vasectomy, or tubal ligation. This is one of the most popular types of birth control, because it is permanent and for the most part safe.