Eugenics & The Non-Therapeutic Sterilization of Incapable Ad

Title: Eugenics & The Non-Therapeutic Sterilization of Incapable Ad
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Eugenics & The Non-Therapeutic Sterilization of Incapable Ad

Eugenics & The Non-Therapeutic Sterilization of Incapable Adults Eugenics is the science of improving the population by controlled breeding for desirable inherited characteristics. The horrible effects of Canada’s eugenics movement, which spanned from 1885 to 1945, still resound through Canadian courts to this day. The eugenics movement spawned the horrific practices of government-enforced, involuntary sterilization programs such as the Sexual Sterilization Act passed in Alberta. Alberta was one of two provinces (B.C. 1933), to pass such legislation. …showed first 75 words of 1758 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1758 total…protection. Mentally disabled persons are certainly members of society who need special protection under the law. No one wants to see the horrors of the eugenics movement, but what about those individual families with special circumstances like Sandra Crockett and her son. Perhaps there is need for a special panel to deal with non-therapeutic sterilization cases such as these. Perhaps we should look to our past mistakes and find a way to avoid repeating them.

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