Initiative was created to prevent those deemed 'feebleminded' from becoming parents. FMTNews
Authors found that during the period studied, sterilisation rates increased with size of unemployed black population.
Most were coerced but some women who had no other means of birth control sought out sterilisation by having themselves declared unfit mothers.It examined the years 1958 to 1968, a period in which more than 2,100 authorised sterilisations occurred across the state’s 100 counties. This includes, according to the text of the Geneva Convention, “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”.
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