Editorial: California has a moral duty to compensate mentally ill people sterilized against their wills.
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
May 24, 2018
2 minutes
As appalling as it sounds today, the practice of sterilizing mentally ill women and men to prevent them from passing on their supposedly defective genes was routine and accepted across the United States in the first half of the 20th century. But nowhere was the eugenics movement, as it was called, more entrenched
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