I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Indigenous Women Kept from Seeing Their Newborn Babies Until Agreeing to Sterilization, Says Lawyer:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-13-2018-1.4902679/indigenous-women-kept-from-seeing-their-newborn-babies-until-agreeing-to-sterilization-says-lawyer-1.4902693
My Commentary: Time for a history lesson about eugenics…
Many are aware of the fact that the Eugenics laws of the United States, which began to spring up in the 1900s, legalized the State-sponsored sterilization of the mentally and genetically “inferior” for almost a hundred years – specifically targeting the disabled, and minority groups.
Few realize, however, that US Eugenics laws weren’t just implemented overnight, but were merely a “scientifically justified” repackaging of US anti-disablity and anti-minority-based “ugly laws”…
In The 1800s, There Were Literally Laws Against Being Ugly (And No Surprise Who Suffered Most):
https://timeline.com/in-the-1800s-there-were-literally-laws-against-being-ugly-and-no-surprise-who-suffered-most-c0b7a26ba8c9
Even fewer know that US eugenics laws DIRECTLY INSPIRED Hitler’s even more radical “racial hygiene laws”:
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics:
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796
Eugenics and the Nazis — the California Connection:
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php
State’s Little-Known History Of Shameful Science / California’s Role in Nazis’ Goal of ‘Purification’:
https://m.sfgate.com/business/article/State-s-little-known-history-of-shameful-science-2663925.php
California Once Targeted Latinas for Forced Sterilization:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-targeted-latinas-forced-sterilization-180968567/
Unwanted Sterilization And Eugenics Programs In The United States:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
Dark Chapter of American History – U.S. Court Battle Over Forced Sterilization:
https://archive.commondreams.org/view/072100-106.htm
Eugenics Laws Restricting Immigration:
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay9text
And, sterilization laws and laws restricting immigration weren’t the only means for the genocidal eugenicists of America to reduce the number of “inferior” human beings living and reproducing in the USA. Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, a hard-core eugenicist, said of her “work”:
“Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.” (“Apostle of Birth Control Sees Cause Gaining Here”, The New York Times, 1923-04-08)