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16 sie 2019 · In 1937 Georgia became the thirty-second and final state to enact a eugenic sterilization law, with the aim of preventing men and women with “a tendency to serious physical, mental or nervous disease or deficiency” from procreating and passing on their heredity to future generations.
6 mar 2018 · In Georgia, the story of eugenic sterilization presents the same theme that defined the national eugenics movement: societal deference to scientific expertise, because of legal coercion, poverty, or lack of education, allowed for sterilizations to occur with little meaningful opposition.
2 paź 2020 · A whistle-blower complaint alleged that immigrant women in a privately-run ICE detention center in Ocilla, Georgia, were being coerced into unnecessary sterilization.
19 lis 2020 · A whistleblower complaint has alleged that nonconsensual hysterectomies were being performed on women held at an ICE detention facility in Georgia — and ICE is responding to the allegations by deporting the women.
Despite its slow start, the beginnings of the eugenics movement in Georgia can be traced as far back as 1913, with the National Corn Exposition incorporating classes on eugenics and the call for a "department of eugenics" by the Child Welfare Exhibit of Atlanta (Lombardo, p. 46).
2 mar 2024 · Eugenics and the “Mentally Defective” Fernald’s earlier 1912 address to the meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society magnified concerns about the flood of “mental defect” within the U.S....
The science of human breeding, known as eugenics, flourished in America in the first half of the 20th century. The movement's chief proponents included wealthy philanthropists, politicians, doctors, and young middle-class reformers.
