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Survivors of Utah's eugenic sterilization program still alive in 2023

• Apofis 4y ago
  This is horrific and this sounds very familiar: > Utah had a particularly aggressive sterilization program. Eugenics leaders, in fact, hailed Utah for sterilizing a far greater proportion of its residents than any other state in 1947 as an "important achievement in public health."
  • hulitu 4y ago
    > This is horrific and this sounds very familiar: > > Utah had a particularly aggressive sterilization program. Eugenics leaders, in fact, hailed Utah for sterilizing a far greater proportion of its residents than any other state in 1947 as an "important achievement in public health." Americans learned a lot from the nazis after WW2.