Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and those with disabilities – and lasted into the 21st century

Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation ^ | Sept 23, 2020 | Aexandra Minna Stern

[ChildOfThe60s]

In August 1964, the North Carolina Eugenics Board met to decide if a 20-year-old Black woman should be sterilized. Because her name was redacted from the records, we call her Bertha.

She was a single mother with one child who lived at the segregated O'Berry Center for African American adults with intellectual disabilities in Goldsboro. According to the North Carolina Eugenics Board, Bertha had an IQ of 62 and exhibited “aggressive behavior and sexual promiscuity.” She had been orphaned as a child and had a limited education. Likely because of her “low IQ score,” the board determined she was not capable of rehabilitation.

Instead the board recommended the “protection of sterilization” for Bertha, because she was “feebleminded” and deemed unable to “assume responsibility for herself” or her child. Without her input, Bertha’s guardian signed the sterilization form.

A pamphlet extolling the benefit of selective sterilization published by the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1950. North Carolina State Documents Collection/State Library of North Carolina

Bertha’s story is one of the 35,000 sterilization stories we are reconstructing at the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab. Our interdisciplinary team explores the history of eugenics and sterilization in the U.S. using data and stories. So far, we have captured historical records from North Carolina, California, Iowa and Michigan.

[ChildOfThe60s]

We're going to force you to do it because it's for the common good.

You will be stunned at how recently this has been going on.

[euram]

“Because her name was redacted from the records, we call her Bertha.”

They should have given her a much more ghetto-sounding name, probably not a lot of black Berthas.

I have no problem with sterilizing people with below room-temperature IQs.

[packagingguy]

Why do you think public schools are pushing tranny propaganda on young children?

[Rocko Jack]

That’s very Democrat of you.
Progressives are big on Eugenics.
Margaret Sanger was big on Eugenics

[BlueLancer]

They should have given her a much more ghetto-sounding name, probably not a lot of black Berthas.

Bertha ... Bertha Butt ... one of da Butt sistahs ...

[dsrtsage]

You know it is still happening, right?

[frank ballenger]

Wouldn’t Biden and the Dems say “This is not about freedom.”
As two days ago about forced vax jabs?

If the government decides your group has no rights then you have no rights. That’s why the US Constitution was a good idea. Too bad it’s practically diminished to zero enforcement now.

[frank ballenger]

Without her input, Bertha’s guardian signed the sterilization form.

Soon we will have doctors and social workers empowered by the federal government to decide on euthanasia. Scandinavia has what are known by people as "involuntary suicide."

Doctor in one case reported by a news site decided an elderly woman should die rather than needlessly live longer at great expense to the government health care system. She said "No! No! Don't do this. I don't want to die." He injected her with a hypo and she died.

Sounds like a way for the Dems to balance the socialist Medicare for All budget. Who needs the elderly, anyway? /S

[Qui is]

“Sock it to me! Sock it to me! Sock it to me!”

[GOPJ]

Democrat white racists ran the KKK in the South and the boards that called for sterilizations of black citizens.

Today democrat white ‘elites’ run the country and the boards that force vaccinations on Americans.

[elpadre]

practiced by planned parenthood - selective abortions???

[House Atreides]

“ Democrat white racists ran the KKK in the South and the boards that called for sterilizations of black citizens.”
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Whites were sterilized under those programs also.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Norplant-temporary. But then critics would point to it leading to a more permanent way.

[Karoo]

Did they ever sterilize men if their IQ below 62

[Pollard]

Put them all together.

Regular forced jabs + jab passports + tracking and profiling(medical, spending, social) which creates a social score and you have a system to get rid of the undesirables. They simply get a special jab one day and either die or become sterile. Within a few generations, you have your perfect society and bring the population down to whatever you consider to be ‘sustainable’.

[Pollard]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#Compulsory_sterilization

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

"Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Buck v. Bell

And he was right.

[cnsmom]

Just Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood doing Hitler’s gardening clearing out the human weeds. I’m stunned by how ignorant people are about US eugenics throughout history.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

So the alternative is for the rest of us to support indefinitely congenital mental defectives who will crank out congenital mentally defective progeny, who all of us then also will have to support their entire life.

No thanks.

[AFPhys]

Hi Blue Lancer.

Can you please repost your classic:

“200 years from now, I want their children’s children’s children
to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead
because their legends tell of fire from the sky. ... etc.”

Including the photos, if you can find them. I thought I had that classic totally saved, but alas...