Eugenics with Eric Michael Garcia
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Eugenics - Who Are the People to Bring the Law Back In?
The last territory of the united states that passed he eugenics law was rhode island, porto. Porto rico, they blamed over population. They blamed poverty. And then basing what they did as they targeted poor women for sterilization. According to a report in 19 76 from the us. Department of health education and welfare, 37 % of women from hid of child bearing age and petr had been sterilized. The vast majority of them were in their twenties. One of the big movers of this was clarence gampbll, who was the head of the pennsylvania birth control federation. He was the heir to the procter in gamble fortune
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