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Show 28 w.eek Tuesday at tee put the House would introduce No enactment of a member a Bill under the Commit- Joint said he ten minute rule.T1 resulted. preceded legal 1897 In years. actual sterilization states, had eugenic purposes more and Commons, our In the United or proposals before our sanction for ten by eugenical sterilization bill a unsuccessfully introduced into the Michigan legs was It lature. anticipated by secret had been and illegal operations by superintendents of reformatories and of institutions for feeble-minded, sas. "Several hundred males diana by H. C. Sharpfl State Indiana The first sterilization in came 1907.5 vasectomized in "b e ror e the enactment made Pennsylvania legislature ernnr.4 Thn valid, were Indiana and Kan (institutional physician Reformatory) sterilization human in as act, but Indiana's it in state's 1907." was the first 3 of 1905 passed the vetoed by the gov law, the first Each biennium thereafter Human at In- to be made saw enact- 52 3. Landman, J.H., 4. Sterilization Gosney,E.S., and Popenoe, P Betterment, p.15. Macmillan,N.Y. 1930. 5. (Where not otherwise credited, in this chapter the general information on state statutes is made from Sterilization, p. •• the for Human: data in the tables in Landman's Human Steriliza in the appendices of that volume.) tion, |
