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Show 55 Relation Between Sterilization and As his vict, to his have we seen discharge the in date case of hinged upon Rischarge. the castrated his con- giving consent operation. reasons, as f1 against purely eugenic considerations. over Two California replies to my letters asking what motives were behind that state's sterilization operations: nPracticlly all of our cases are sterilized for eu n (Dr. ]'.O.Butler, letter to writer, dated (Dr. Butler "ha s to his credit the great genic reasons. ]ay 22, 1933). est number of sterilizations of any state official and has a national reputation in this field.H--From letter to writer from Joseph E. Robinson, Business Manager of New State Hospital, tfThere at Camarillo, California.) record, as you say, on the question of how many operations performed in the state institutions in California were strictly eugenioal and how many were I should. say off-hand, therapeutic or for other reasons. that there have been no punitive operations a In early days there were few operations done on men in a somewhat. experimental frame of mind with the thought that the result might be therapeutically beneficial. This has long ago been abandoned and all operations on men are now eugenia. Just as a guess, I should suppose in the total life of the bill, twenty-four years, five or ten per cent of the operations on men might well have had some therapeutic implication though they were eugenic as well. The others would all be eugenic. Of the operations on women, all are ostenSibly eugenia, but possibly ten or twenty percent might have had some therapeutic purpose. as is no •••••••••••••• well in the sense that removal of fear of pregnancy was expected to benefit the woman's mental condition. No op erations are performed for economic reasons alone and it is doubtful if this is a factor that receives any parti cular weight· in a decision to operate. The foregoing ap plies only to operations performed under the state laws." --Dr. Paul Popenoe, letter to writer, dated May 18, 1933. |
