Sterilization for human betterment : a summary of results of 6,000 operations in California, 1909-1929 / by E.S. Gosney ... and Paul Popenoe.

  • Gosney, E. S. (Ezra Seymour), 1855-1942.
Date:
1929
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Credit: Sterilization for human betterment : a summary of results of 6,000 operations in California, 1909-1929 / by E.S. Gosney ... and Paul Popenoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION MARRIAGE More than 125 feeble-minded, sterilized girls on parole have married. The majority have turned out well. These girls could not have succeeded if they had been burdened with responsibility for the care of children, particularly of feeble-minded children. PRIVATE STERILIZATION Probably as many women have been sterilized in private practice as in state institutions. These have mostly been because of bad hearts, bad lungs, or bad kidneys, rendering childbirth dan¬ gerous to the life of the mother. Many hospitals now refuse to perform abortions unless they ster¬ ilize at the same time. We feel that the time has come when there should be some form of state supervision over all sterilization. THE LAWS The present statutes of most states need amendment. In the appendix to this volume will be found a summary of the statutes and decisions on this subject in the various states, quoted from an address by Otis H. Castle of Los Angeles, before the American Bar Association at Seattle in July, 1928. E. S. Gosney [xvi ]