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Show 47 CHAPTER VI UTAH'S STER.ILIZATION ACTIVITY. Sterilizations to First Prior Legislative Enactment, 1925. The 'earliest sterilization operations in Utah, if authentioate, pioneer oommunity is likely crudely 'ith severe. authorized tribunals, theless have had of causing the bers of their a sudden to town and castrated in any and never- and hanging horse-thieves, disappearance of unwanted may be sex offenders them.27 But the a some mem truth and p eop Le, ao- of ohroniclers to and local no early settlers everywhere quainted with pioneer history, gilantes have taken to be oertain, statutes communities; so, there s performed prove rfJusticefl be' swift, enacted no way of behind the statement 27. fl,A young probably punitive purposes. for oastrations would effect that little way out any of these po ss vi of I ble in Cache Valley had a difficulty with girl whom the bishop wanted for a "plural wife.ff The young man was seized. in a canon by two men with blackened faces and by them mutilated in an un speakable manner. He afterwards want to San Bernardino, California, and died .insane." Beadle, J.R. Life in regard to man a Utah. pp 173-4. National Publishing Company Philadelphia, 1870. unI was at Sunday meeting in the Spring of 1857, .Ln hen the news' of the San Pete castration was re fe·rred to by the presiding bishoPT--Blaclcburn. UN' Sten Provo, - house, T.E.H., The Rocky Mountain Saints D. pleton and Company, New York, 1873. p. 302, |
