The United States Once Sterilized Tens of Thousands —Here’s How the Supreme Court Allowed It

The United States Once Sterilized Tens of Thousands —Here’s How the Supreme Court Allowed It

On the morning of October 19, 1927, the Commonwealth of Virginia sterilized Carrie Buck. Dr. John Bell whose name would forever be linked with Carrie’s in the Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell cut her open and removed a section from each of her Fallopian tubes. In his notes, Dr. Bell noted that “this was the first case operated on under the sterilization law.”

Another Saskatoon woman says she was sterilized against her will

Another Saskatoon woman says she was sterilized against her will

Another aboriginal woman has come forward to say she was sterilized against her will at the Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon.

Disability groups go to UN over Australia’s forced sterilisation practice

Disability groups go to UN over Australia’s forced sterilisation practice

The forced sterilisation of people with disability and the nonconsensual genital “normalisation” of intersex babies and children in Australia are being brought to the United Nations torture committee.

Report finds female inmates were sterilized in California prisons without state approval

Report finds female inmates were sterilized in California prisons without state approval

Doctors sterilized nearly 150 female inmates in the California prison system from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, with many of these women reporting that they were coerced into receiving the surgery, the Center for Investigative Reporting has found.

Call to ban forced sterilisations

Call to ban forced sterilisations


PARENTS and carers of the disabled are regularly doctor shopping and going abroad to have their children sterilised illegally, according to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Judge calls ruling over sterilization ‘wrenching’

Judge calls ruling over sterilization ‘wrenching’

The newly retired judge whose parting order to sterilize a pregnant schizophrenic woman was overturned on appeal this week said yesterday she grappled with the case, while Gov. Deval Patrick, pressed on the matter yesterday, said he thinks she went too far.

North Carolina Urges Sterilization Victims to Come Forward

North Carolina Urges Sterilization Victims to Come Forward

Lela Duncan was only 13 when she gave birth to a son in the Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. She said she was unaware why county officials had visited her mother within a year of her son's birth, or the duress under which her mother was forced to commit her to the home for wayward girls. While Duncan had committed no crime, she was carted off and held for years at the institution. Under North Carolina statute, Duncan was eligible to leave the home only after being surgically sterilized under a platform known as eugenic sterilization.

Forced sterilisation comes back to haunt US state

Forced sterilisation comes back to haunt US state

More than 60 000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children. Now, decades on, one state is considering compensation.

Sterilisation: North Carolina grapples with legacy

Sterilisation: North Carolina grapples with legacy

More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children. Now, decades on, one state is considering compensation.