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Show 33 Several of the states provide penalties for 11- legal sterilization operations, varying of one $1,000 in year or five Some states' to statutes affeot Most for' counsel at out funds. and in or provide state's no punishment both. no cases. legal counsel free to expense Utah makes P au1 P openoe s one institutions. Utah's only institutionalised sterilization, though the 1 apply to inmates only, others , D r. Montana years' imprisonment large states didates pr'ison, --to laws both at people severity penalty,--$lOO to $500 fine and from the Kansas half to in if a few will the can provide candidate is with- provision. . wrl t es: 15 "Th general trend in sterilization legis lation during the last six or eight years has been toward the replacement of voluntary laws It is a common thing that by compulsory laws. a state adopts a voluntary sterilization bill This encounters less opposi as a beginning. tion, and there are some plausible though not conolusive arguments in favor of it. After few years' experienoe it is found that this is not what is really needed, 'and it is modi fied to introduce a compulsory feature. I should say that this is the only particular trend that can be disoerned in sterilization ff legi'slation at the present time. Utah's statutes tion, but the polioy provide at the l5.From letter to writer, for compulsory sterilfza- Utah State dated April Hospital 4, 1933. has |
