Compulsory Sterilisation

• Compulsory Sterilisation:

  • Eugenics argues that “genetically unfit” should be prevented from breeding
  • Eugenics set up pressure groups to support their policies
  • In 1928 the US Supreme Court rules it was legal to sterolive “unfit” including those with learnigng
• Compulsory Sterilisation:

  • Eugenics argues that “genetically unfit” should be prevented from breeding
  • Eugenics set up pressure groups to support their policies
  • In 1927 the US Supreme Court rules it was legal to sterilise “unfit” including those with learning difficulties for the health and protection of the state.
• Nazi ”Racial Purity“ Policy:

  • Genocide (Holocaust)
  • Murder of disabled and homosexuals
  • Marriage Laws
  • Sterilisation of black people and disabled people
  • Belief in the Aryan Race
  • Eugenics is one of the most extreme examples of policies based on biological theories