Compulsory sterilization of the "
feebleminded" was etched in stone by the revered liberal Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(20) The negative eugenics program of Nazi regime which began in 1933 and ended in 1945 led to 400,000 "
feebleminded" and "racially unfit" people being sterilized, while another 70,000 individuals were euthanized, a grisly foreshadowing of the murder of six million Jews, and tens of millions of others who were deemed "racially impure" such as Poles, Catholic priests, Romani, Russians or any others who opposed the Nazis.
It was bad enough to have Romney include me in his 47 percent deadbeat lineup, but now the "Aging Lawyers Working Group" includes me in the
feebleminded 11 percent.
In States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System, Professor Chavez-Garcia tells of the juvenile justice system; its use of science, mostly eugenics until recently; the identification of minority youth as
feebleminded or mentally defective, leading to the castration of some; and innovators who forged reform strategies for short terms.
Most were operated on without their consent, having been deemed "
feebleminded" and unfit to reproduce.
Development of the intelligence test shortly after the turn of the century allowed for the "scientific" delineation of the
feebleminded element of the population.
This story is a documentary film about the first institution of its kind (and last) in New Hampshire which between 1903 and 1991 accommodated men and women who were "labeled
feebleminded, deficient or disabled." It is the work of New Hampshire resident Gordon DuBois, who was employed in several different positions at the school beginning in 1977, until it closed its doors permanently in 1991.
As late as 1924, the Virginia legislature approved a hallmark of the eugenics movement, forced sterilization, on prison inmates if they were deemed "feeble-minded." Like today, prisons had large black populations, and six months after the sterilization statute, the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and
Feebleminded approved the sterilization of a 17-year-old girl named Carrie Buck, who was actually white.
In this study, the author traces the history of Southern adolescent girls' sexuality from the 1920s through the beginnings of the modern Civil Rights Movement, exploring ideas about--and, where possible, the lived experiences of--flappers, delinquents, the
feebleminded, pick-up girls, and teenagers.
Bell, which upheld a Virginia law permitting the forced sterilization of the "
feebleminded and socially inadequate."
Teenaged white girls who, for example, frequented dance halls, got into any trouble with the law, or became unwed mothers, could end up being referred by social workers, hospital staff, the police, or other government authorities for forced sterilization on the grounds that they were "
feebleminded." The US Supreme Court endorsed forced sterilization in Buck v.
The Record warned back in September that Stephen's
feebleminded fudge risked blowing the chance of bringing 600,000 tourists a year and an economic windfall to Scotland.
Feebleminded blind should be considered custodial cases to be cared for and protected by the state for as long as they live.
"Diagnosis:
Feebleminded. Operation will be performed by surgeon on staff at St.
