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Show 27 CHAPTER V STERILIZATION LEGISLATION .AND LEGAL ACTIVITY. General Historical America had sterilization no sent centurY,--1907. hind, ,the Uni ted states ad oonsiderable Cana[a, in recent enaoted sterilization laws adopted eugenic and has t.Lon laws and the Canton sterilization Norway are of a bill pre- lagged be have but have shOlW- years. Alberta, in in 1928; 1929, Vaud, Switzerland, investigating the The Eugenios Society b'een trying vigorously enacted; the legislation; Germany, act L vely of the movement. sibilities ngland countries in. the movement, interest Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Other laws until to - in steriliza have introduced in pos 1929' was voted down In Dr. December, 1930, 2 genies Society reported: C. "Dr. P. Blacker Langdon the Eu- of Down and I last 1. Landman, J. H. ,Human Sterilization. en, III l'The Hi's tory of Human Sterilization in the United states." 2. From report of C.P.Blacker, Esq., lVI.B., [ R.C.P. ,p.10 of "Report of' Session on The Need for an Enq_uiry into the Causation and Prevention ill! Mental Deficiency." Central ssociation for Mental 'velfare. (Incorporatecl) London. Report from Conference on Mental ·lelfare, Dec. 12, 1930. pp. 52-53. •. |
