“You never heard of the Mississippi appendectomy or the Carrie Buck case? People who were considered feeble minded were regularly sterilized with the approval of their families and most of the folks in the community up to the late 60s”
No, but maybe I led a sheltered life.
Must have, it was common practice for years. Parents still have children with severe disabilities sterilized. Remember for years and years and years a lot of the street people you see today were houses by the state in insane institutes. Are they better are worse off now.