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lunasun

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13. Thank you for your comments . I agree and yes
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:03 AM
May 2019

It has happened here
https://www.thoughtco.com/u-s-governments-role-sterilizing-women-of-color-2834600
By the 1960s, tens of thousands of Americans were sterilized in state run eugenics programs

https://stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/cgi-bin/blogs/familyplanning/2008/10/23/forced-sterilization-in-puerto-rico/

The history of coercive population control policy in Puerto Rico begins with a superintendent of the US Eugenics Record Office named Harry Laughlin. Laughlin used a Model Eugenical Sterilization Law to implement the mandatory sterilization of the “socially inadequate” in 30 US states and Puerto Rico. This overtly eugenic policy deliberately targeted groups of people for sterilization (e.g. the feeble-minded, the insane, orphans, ne’er-do wells) and later inspired Hitler’s forced sterilization program in Europe

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