Talks about access to abortion could threaten other reproductive health care, including voluntary sterilizations (Getty Images) The United States has been an international leader in the field of eugenics. Its sterilization laws actually informed Nazi Germany. The Third Reich`s “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases” of 1933 was based on the laws of Indiana and California. Under this law, the Nazis sterilized about 400,000 children and adults, mostly Jews and other “undesirables,” who were labeled “defective.” Under Ohio law, “no resident shall be subjected to sterilization without the informed consent of the resident,” except as provided by law. [70] In 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly passed an allocation bill to provide compensation of up to $50,000 per person to people sterilized under the authority of the North Carolina Eugenics Council. [66] [67] However, in 2016, an applicant was denied compensation for her involuntary sterilization because the sterilization did not take place under the supervision of the Eugenics Committee, so the court could not award compensation to the applicant. [68] As the 26th state to pass some sort of sterilization law, Mississippi began the first sterilization of an inmate. Those affected by this law were “persons with hereditary forms of recurrent, idiotic, imbecil, imbecility or epilepsy.” About three people were sterilized against their will each year from 1938 to 1941. Mississippi is number eighteen for most sterilizations in the United States. [54] In Skinner v. should have done so.
[83] The Court of Appeal “was remanded in custody for a new hearing, with a defence lawyer appointed to represent K.M.” [83] In 1993, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that a mentally incompetent patient may be sterilized without her informed consent if there is clear and convincing evidence that sterilization is in her best interest. [75] Unfortunately, forced sterilization continues. Roma women were involuntarily sterilized in the Czech Republic only in 2007. In northern China, Uighurs, a religious and racial minority, have been subjected to mass sterilizations and other measures of extreme population control. A total of 256 people have been affected by sterilization in Montana. About 74% of them were women and 28% were men. These laws began in the early 1920s and reached their peak in the mid-1930s. [17] This policy began in 1978 to protect state-insured women from forced sterilization, at a time when state-insured women were often victims of reproductive coercion. Although initially well-intentioned, many experts agree that this policy now paradoxically discriminates against publicly insured women by imposing additional burdens on the permanent contraception they want and limiting their reproductive autonomy.
In 1988, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a district court has jurisdiction to authorize the sterilization of an incapacitated person, even though there is no Iowa law regulating sterilization. [41] More than half of all sterilized individuals were classified as “mentally retarded.” This sterilization was completed in 1963. [57] In 2008, the Illinois Court of Appeals ruled that when deciding an application to sterilize an incompetent position, a court should apply the superseded consent standard if there is clear and convincing evidence as to how the ward would decide whether the position is responsible; However, the court must apply the patient`s best interests standard if the service`s superseded judgment cannot be supported by clear and convincing evidence. [35] Under Title 34 B, Chapter 7 of the revised Maine Regulations, also known as the Sterilization Due Process Act of 1982, a district court hearing and order authorizing sterilization is required if the sterilization is for “A.