Dr Silvia Camporesi interviewed by BBC World News on Eugenics and Sterilisation
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Virginia eugenics victims compensated for sterilisation
Lawmakers in the US state of Virginia have agreed to pay compensation to people who were forcibly sterilised by the authorities decades ago.
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Last week, Virginia became the second state to compensate victims of one of the most shameful acts in U.S. history: state-sponsored forced sterilization. Virginia has agreed to give each surviving victim $25,000. North Carolina was the first to compensate its victims, setting aside $50,000 per individual in 2013. Now it's time for California to compensate its sterilization victims.
The discredited pseudo-science of eugenics (meaning well-born) purported that certain traits such as intelligence and social behaviors are hereditary. Advocates believed that the same selective breeding theories applied to corn and cattle could also govern the intellectual and social characteristics of humanity. As a result, American bureaucrats and legislators eagerly implemented policies aimed at preventing those they deemed undesirable and defective from reproducing. The scheme promulgated that sterilization was a cost-effective way of relieving society of the burden of providing for the social welfare of the unfit and socially inadequate.
In 1909, California became the third state to pass virtually without opposition a forced-sterilization law. In 1913, state legislators amended the law to broaden its reach, seeking to target anyone with mental disease, which may have been inherited and is likely to be transmitted to descendants. What followed was the most zealous eugenics campaign in America.
From 1909 until its repeal in 1979, the Golden State coercively sterilized more than 20,000 of its citizens. Nearly a third of all the forced sterilizations in the United States were done in California. Various organizations were established to assist in ridding society of its costly subhuman defectives: the Eugenics Society of Northern California, the California Division of the American Eugenics Society, the Pasadena-based Human Betterment Foundation and others.
Other state legislatures followed suit and by 1924, 15 states had enacted similar sterilization laws.
Even Adolf Hitler took notice. In Mein Kampf, published in 1925, he celebrated the ideology. There is today one state, wrote Hitler, in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of citizenship] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States. Hitler's Reich deployed its own sterilization laws, nearly identical to those in the United States, within six months of taking power in 1933.
The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately weighed in on the issue. In Buck vs. Bell (1927), the court held 8 to 1 that the state, under its police powers, had the constitutional authority to segregate and systematically sterilize people to reduce the economic and societal burden they inflicted on the nation.
In the majority opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote: It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.... Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
As Holmes' words acknowledge, the intent of eugenical sterilization laws like California's was not simply to deprive victims of children, but also to ensure that they and their posterity ceased to exist. It was the state-sponsored means of eradicating entire classes of people. It is only when the victim dies that the stated objective is accomplished.
California officially apologized to victims for its repugnant act in 2003. But just 10 years later, the state's prison system was found to have been sterilizing dozens of female inmates without lawful consent. Has our thinking really changed? Defending the cost of such surgeries, one prison gynecologist said, Over a 10-year period, that isn't a huge amount of money compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children as they procreated more.
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It's time for California to compensate its forced-sterilization victims
LYNCHBURG Efforts to get compensation for victims of Virginias forced sterilization policy appear to be on stronger footing this year with a brighter state budget outlook and continued backing from House of Delegates leaders.
I think it has a better chance of getting out this year than it did last year. Last year, we ran out of money, said Del. John OBannon, R-Henrico, a subcommittee chairman on the House Appropriations Committee.
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Lynchburg, VA- It's a victory several years in the making. We're hearing from a victim of state-approved sterilization after he found out Thursday, he will be compensated by the Commonwealth for all he's been through. Katie Brooke sat down with 88-year-old Lewis Reynolds Saturday to hear his reaction.
It's been years of work -- but the bill that appropriates 400 thousand dollars for sterilization victims finally passed both the house and the Senate. Once the governor signs and the budget completes-- each victim will get a 25 thousand dollar check. But they say it's really a symbolic thanks-- that money does nothing to erase the lifetime each victim has lived with not even a chance to have children or a family of their own.
"For years, they were told they were trash, that they worthless, so worthless that the commonwealth didn't want even want them to have children, or for children to be like them," said Mark Bold the CEO of Christian Law Institute.
Lewis Reynolds was sterilized at 13 for having a seizure.
"I can't have a family now, and I always wanted a family, but I can't have one," said Reynolds.
Reynolds is one of seven thousand two hundred and fifty nine Virginians taken by Police or social workers from 1924 to 1979 and sterilized against their will.
"The amount of money, 25 thousand dollars for what was taken away from them, really is small, but in the end of the day, it's symbolic," said Bold.
Mark Bold says many sterilized for something as small as not showing up to school, struggling with alcoholism, or being what social workers deemed "promiscuous". Others for being epileptic, or having mental issues.
"They're valuable, they're our neighbors they're our friends, but clearly it's not the government's role to kill off," said Bold.
Now, the Commonwealth, finally recognizing the wrong- and trying to right it as much as they can, after these victims were ripped from their homes and sent to places like Western State Hospital in Staunton and the Central Virginia Training Center in Lynchburg; many of their families, never seeing them again.
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THE US state of Virginia agreed on Thursday to compensate victims who were forcibly sterilised by state officials decades ago under a eugenics programme.
Survivors won their three-year fight when the Virginia General Assembly budgeted $400,000 (258,000) to compensate them at the rate of $25,000 (16,000) each.
It was welcome news for 87-year-old Lewis Reynolds, who was among more than 7,000 Virginians forcibly sterilised between 1924 and 1979 under the barbaric provisions of the Virginia Eugenical Sterilisation Act.
I think they done me wrong, he said. I couldnt have a family like everybody else does. They took my rights away.
Eugenics was a deeply reactionary movement that sought to improve the genetic composition of the human race by preventing those considered defective from reproducing.
Virginias Sterilisation Act became a model for similar legislation around the country and the world, including nazi Germany.
Nationwide, 65,000 US citizens were sterilised in 33 US states, including more than 20,000 in California alone, said Christian Law Institute executive director Mark Bold, whose organisation has been pressing the case of the Virginia victims since 2013.
Virginia is only the second state to approve compensation for victims of the eugenics programme.
North Carolina approved payments of $50,000 (32,000) for each victim in 2013.
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From a 1920 USDA publication titled, "Runtsand the Remedy"
A version of this article was originally published on Gastropod.
Something extremely bizarre took place in the early decades of the 20th century, inspired by a confluence of trends. Scientists had recently developed a deeper understanding of genetics and inherited traits; at the same time, the very first eugenics policies were being enacted in the United States. And, as the population grew, the public wanted cheaper meat and milk. As a result, in the 1920s, the USDA encouraged rural communities around the United States to put bulls on the witness standto hold a legal trial, complete with lawyers and witnesses and a watching publicto determine whether the bull was fit to breed.
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In 1900, the average dairy cow in America produced 424 gallons of milk each year. By 2000, that figure had more than quadrupled, to 2,116 gallons. In the latest episode of Gastropoda podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and historywe explore the incredible science that transformed the American cow into a milk machine. But we also uncover the disturbing history of prejudice and animal cruelty that accompanied it.
Livestock breeding was a normal part of American life at the dawn of the 20th century, according to historian Gabriel Rosenberg. The United States, he told Gastropod, was "still largely a rural and agricultural society," and farm animalsand thus some more-or-less scientific forms of selective breedingwere ubiquitous in American life.
Meanwhile, the eugenics movement was on the rise. Founded by Charles Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, eugenics held that the human race could improve itself by guided evolutionwhich meant that criminals, the mentally ill, and others of "inferior stock" should not be allowed to procreate and pass on their defective genes. America led the way, passing the first eugenic policies in the world. By the Second World War, 29 states had passed legislation that empowered officials to forcibly sterilize "unfit" individuals.
Combine the growing population, the desire for cheap meat and milk, and the increasing popularity of eugenics, and the result, Rosenberg said, was the "Better Sires: Better Stock" program, launched by the USDA in 1919. In an accompanying essay, "Harnessing Heredity to Improve the Nation's Live Stock," the USDA's Bureau of Animal Industry proclaimed that, each year, "a round billion dollars is lost because heredity has been permitted to work with too little control." The implication: Humans needed to take controland stop letting inferior or "scrub" bulls reproduce!
The "Better Sires: Better Stock" campaign included a variety of elements to encourage farmers to mate "purebred" rather than "scrub" or "degenerate" sires with their female animals. Anyone who pledged to only use purebred stock to expand their herd was awarded a handsome certificate. USDA field agents distributed pamphlets entitled "Runtsand the Remedy" and "From Scrubs to Quality Stock," packed with charts showing incremental increases of dollar value with each improved generation as well as testimonials from enrolled farmers.
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RICHMOND, Va. The Virginia General Assembly has agreed to compensate individuals who were forcibly sterilized under the 20th-century practice of eugenics.
A budget passed by both chambers Thursday, and awaiting the governor's signature, set aside $400,000 or $25,000 each for victims and their estates.
The appropriation, championed this year by Del. Benjamin Cline, R-Rockbridge, makes Virginia the second state to take such action among more than 30 that forcibly sterilized its residents. North Carolina was the first.
"I'm very pleased we've finally taken this necessary step towards acknowledging the wrongdoing that was done by the state," Cline said. "When someone is denied the ability to have a family, that's a tragedy, but when it's denied to them by their government, that is a scandal and a wrong that needs to be made right."
Gov. Terry McAuliffe's spokesman, Brian Coy, declined to say if the governor favors compensation. While running for office, McAuliffe, a Democrat, said he supported the formal apology offered by Virginia for eugenics, but he did not take a position on payouts.
The Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act, signed into law on March 20, 1924, declared that "heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, idiocy, imbecility, epilepsy, and crime."
It had the blessing of doctors and scientists at the University of Virginia and elsewhere. Under its provisions, people who were confined to state institutions because of mental illness, mental retardation or epilepsy could be sterilized as a "benefit both to themselves and society."
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