One of the more frightful social experiments of the last century is almost unknown to the general public. Millions of people worldwide were forcibly sterilized. Sometimes babies judged to be unfit were euthanized or left to die. In some countries, Nazi Germany for example, entire groups of people were targeted for extermination. It was the practice of culling the inferior people from the human gene pool. It was called Eugenics. Even in the U.S., eugenics was sanctioned by law in many states and involved mass sterilization of tens of thousands of people. With women, sterilization involved the surgical removal of ovaries and it is estimated one out of five died because of the operation.

Eugenics followed two approaches. One was to eliminate, or at least prevent from reproducing, those people who were deemed to possess inferior characterizes. These included those with lower intelligence, physical deformities, mental illness, homosexual life styles, low women and prostitutes, inferior races, trouble makers, criminals, and in certain cases even the sick and the weak. Though the eugenics movement mostly died out by the end of WWII, Sweden did not remove eugenics laws from the books until 1975, and it is still practiced by some cultures.

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