Mass Sterilization in Puerto Rico. Vilar's story is set against the backdrop of the American-led mass sterilization program. Death Threats, Hate Mail for 'Abortion. You are at: Home » More News » Abortion Addict Confesses 15 Procedures in 16 Years. Tweet. Abortion Addict Confesses 15 Procedures in 16 Years. The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics. the German eugenics program and even funded the. victims for sterilization, euthanasia and mass. Between Choice and Coercion. Yet the eugenic sterilization program ironically offered rare access to a form of. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University. Even after the details of the Nazi sterilization program. regime with a federal sterilization law soon to commit mass murder on a historically. Forced Sterilization in Puerto. The Puerto Rican government and the International Planned Parenthood Federation ran a sterilization program with US government. Mass Sterilization. Vilar's story is set against the backdrop of the American-led mass sterilization program in. a small sterilization program. The sterilization program went on until the war started. have argued that evidence does not substantiate claims of a mass sterilization program. The vast majority of them occurred after the Michigan passed its last sterilization law in 1929. However, he vocally supported a forced sterilization program. Live on ABC NEWS Now. Mass Sterilization in Puerto Rico. Vilar's story is set against the backdrop of the American-led mass sterilization program in her native. Michigan Eugenics. Home. Number of. Victims. There were at least. Michigan. Of the 3. The remaining 4. 19 were of. Paul, p. 3. 75). According. Human Betterment Foundation stated that 7. Of the insane, 8. In “the HBF category of others,”. Hodges, “Dealing with Degeneracy,” p. Period When. Occurred. Sterilizations in Michigan. Paul, p. 3. 82). The vast majority of. Michigan passed its last sterilization law in. Sterilizations Occurred. The. initial number of sterilization in Michigan. The number peaked from the time period between 1. During this period, the rate of sterilization was about 4 people per year per 1. The yearly number of sterilizations was fairly constant from the mid. Following 1. 95. 3, the number of yearly sterilizations decreased. Hodges, “Dealing with Degeneracy,” p. Passage of. Laws. In 1. 89. 7, Michigan. In. adopted a forced sterilization. Paul, p. 3. 72; Laughlin, p. Only. one sterilization occurred before the Michigan. Supreme Court system declared the law unconstitutional in the Michigan. Haynes v. Lapeer. Circuit Judge. A new sterilization. Paul, pp. 3. 72- 3; Landman, pp. Under. the 1. 92. Hodges, "Euthenics, eugenics," p. The law was written by Burke Shartel, a professor of law at the University of Michigan (Randall 1. As Jeffrey Hodges has commented in his Master's thesis on eugenics in Michigan, Nazi Germany was not the first entity to contemplate the x- ray sterilization procedure (Hodges, "Euthenics, eugenics," pp. Another. law was passed in 1. It also included a new reference to a "more humane. Landman, p. 7. 3), which came to mean. Hodges, "Euthenics, eugenics," pp. Groups. Identified in the Law. Michigan's. 1. 91. The. 1. 92. 3 law was compulsory and voluntary and pertained to "idiots. Paul, p. 3. 72). and it was extramural in that it included not only patients in state. Paul, p. 3. 72). In. Hodges, "Dealing with Degeneracy," p. Paul, p. 3. 75). Process of. Law. The original. Michigan. had the right to sterilize via a vasectomy or salpingectomy anyone with. A board of surgeons and. The. 1. 92. 3 law stipulated that the boards of state institutions providing. If a. sterilization order came forth, it could be challenged by the person to. Landman, p. 7. 3). The amendment in. Hodges. "Dealing with Degeneracy," p. The. expanded 1. 92. The decision. required written consent, but a probate court could dispense with the. Landman, pp. 7. 2- 3). Precipitating. Processes. In Michigan and elsewhere, the. They thought of eugenics as the tool with. When the U. S. Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell. set precedence for more lenient sterilization justifications, Michigan’s. Supreme Court in turn reinterpreted its sterilization policy as an. Paul, p. 3. 73). Based. Dr. Randall, President of the Michigan State Medical. Huntington’s chorea (1. Randall 1. 77). Randall proceeded to point. Steps. such as more stringent immigration laws, the prohibition of. This. however, “has often failed,” and Randall believed that further steps. Randall 1. 77). Randall continues, commenting on. Randall 1. 79). Randall. Dr. Wm. J Kay, Superintendant of Michigan. Home and Training School, who said that of the 1. Of those individuals. Of those 7. 0, 1. Randall 1. 79). Judge Clark E. Higbee, a judge of the Probate Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, spoke. Third Race Betterment Conference in Battle Creek, Michigan. He also believed. It should be. noted, that Higbee believed that manic depression to a form of. Higbee 1. 80). Groups. Targeted and Victimized. African. Americans living in Michigan may have had. Hodges, "Euthenics, eugenics," p. 5. Americans from tribes such as the Ottawa. Hodges, he found that "over twenty percent of. Nearly half of the offenses listed were of a sexual nature. These. sexual offenses ranged from indecent exposure to rape and murder. Homosexuality was also included as a deviant, illegal behavior. Though. homosexuality was legally defined as a form of sodomy, cases of. The most unusual case was a. Reportedly, she preferred intercourse. This file reveals the. Through her weakness, her inability to prevent males from taking. Rape, incest, and sodomy. Euthenics, Eugenics," p. In. a presentation at the Third Race Betterment Conference, Probate Judge. Ruth Thompson spoke on the responsibility of parents to raise their. Thompson. references the number of delinquent (1. Thompson states. that, in the case of a delinquent child, discovering the mother’s. Several examples of children are given, most of them considered. A girl, Ethel, however, was a “sex offender,”. Thompson called this the fault of her parents (Thompson). Other. Restrictions on the. Michigan. This. prohibition was elminated in 1. Paul, p. 3. 89). Jeffrey. Hodges has commented on instances of "euthanasia" for infants in. Michican: "Euthanasia of deformed and retardet newborns wa not unknown. In the hospital jargon of the times, they were 'set aside.' The were. Deformed and retarded children were referred to as FLKs. FLPs" ("Euthenics, Eugenics," p. Proponents(photo origin: Willard Library. Dr. John. Harvey Kellogg, American entrepreneur and inventor of “Corn Flakes”. In. founded the “Race Betterment Foundation” at Battle Creek, Michigan. As president the. The foundation was mostly. Michigan. to support positive eugenics programs in which citizens deemed to have. Eugenics. Archive. Photo origin: The Vaughan Family Archive. Victor. C. Vaughan was another large supporter of eugenics in Michigan. He first became famous as the dean of the University. Sturm). However. Millikan). Serving with Kellogg on. Vaughan and Kellogg were able to leverage the state legislators to pass a. Vaughan. became president of the American Medical Society at Ann Arbor. Sturm; Hodges, "Dealing with Degeneracy," chap. The Race Betterment Foundation (Photo. Proceedings of the Third Race Betterment Conference, January. Battle Creek, Michigan. Available through Vassar University)The purpose of the Race. Betterment Foundation, founded by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who also. Battle Creek Sanitaium, as. Proceedings of the Third Race Betterment Conference, are. To bring together a group of leading scientists. Kellogg, p. ii). The. President of this particular conference was C. C. Little, D. Sc., the. President of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In. a speech given at this conference, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg praised the. Kellogg, p. 1. 18). Kellogg says to maintain that “prize- winner” status, individuals should. Kellogg, p. 1. 19).“Feeder. Institutions” and. Institutions where Sterilizations were Performed(Photo. In. 1. 89. 3 the Michigan Home for the Feebleminded and Epileptic was. Michigan Home and Training School. Lapeer State Home and Training School, and the Oakdale Center for. Developmental Disabilities. It was the place where the majority of. Hodges, "Euthenics, eugenics," p. It received children whose. Great Depression. The city of Lapeer's. This institution closed down for good in 1. Sturm; Michigan Department. Environmental Quality; see also Edwards). In. ABC investigated sterilization at the institution in Lapeer. In a. 2. 0/2. 0 segment they interviewed Ted and Fred Aslin, two men who, along. Fred was determined to be a “feeble- minded moron” and. His brother Ted, his mother and 3 of his other siblings were also. Berman). The ABC crew also investigated the court papers. Lapeer courthouse pertaining to sterilization cases. The. testimonies of doctors were very uniform, and reasons for sterilization. Investigators were. Fred Aslin’s court case (Berman). More. recently, Fred and Ted Aslin requested an official apology from the. State of Michigan. They received one from the head of Michigan. ABC, but that was not enough. The Secretary of. Defense then sent a General to replace Fred Aslin’s damaged purple. Ironically, Ted Aslin was licensed to become a foster father. Both Fred and Ted adopted. Berman). Hodges. ("Euthenics, eugenics," p. Michigan Farm Colony for Epileptics, in. Wahjamega/Caro, as the location of a small number of sterilizations. It. was also called the Caro State Home for Epileptics, Caro State. Hospital, Caro Regional Mental Health Center, and a few buildings still. Rootsweb. org).(Photo origin: http: //www. Another. sterilization institution included the Ionia. State. Hospital for the Criminally. Insane, which is now used. Ionia County). (Picture origin: Jackson District Library, available. PA_FULL_2. 4. jpg. Another is the Michigan. State Prison at Jackson, which. In. it was renovated and reopened as the Southern. Michigan Correctional Facility. The facility officially. Michigan Department of Corrections). The. University. Hospital. Sturm; Hodges, "Euthenics, eugenics,". A Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) survey, states that in. Ann Arbor, 8. 9% of whom were. Hodges, “Dealing with Degeneracy,” p. None of the. institutions make reference to their role at sterilization institutions. Opponents. Eugenics. Michigan's. scientific community. Many. They. competitive success of genealogically diverse corn over pure- breeding. In addition. by 1. Hardy and. Weinberg proposed their evolutionary equilibrium model which. Sturm). When. the 1. Michigan sterilization law was passed, Jeffrey Hodges notes. Catholic church's opposition had not concretized at this point". Hodges, "Dealing with Degeneracy," p. In the 1. 96. 0’s medical. Hodges, "Euthenics, eugenics,". Bibliography. Berman, Thomas. Breeding Better Citizens.” ABC 2. Aired 3/2. 2/2. 00. Edwards, Jen. 2. 01. Lapeer State Home (Oakdale)." Available at http: //www. Eugenics. Archive. Eugenics. Organizations.” Available at < http: //www. Higbee. Clark E. 1. Sterilization Approved by Intelligent People of Every. State.” Proceedings of the Third Race Betterment Conference, January. Battle Creek, Michigan. Hodges. Jeffrey Alann. Dealing with Degeneracy: Michigan Eugenics in. Context." Ph. D. dissertation in history, Michigan State University. Hodges. Jeffrey Alan. Euthenics, Eugenics and Compulsory Sterilization. Michigan, 1. 89. 7- 1. Master's thesis, Dept. History, Michigan State University. Ionia County MIGen. Web. “Michigan. State. Prisons in Ionia. County.” Available at < http: //ionia. Kellogg. John Harvey. Grim's Hall: 9/2. Religious Humor: I remember that once we had an occasion here - - I cannot seem to locate it in the archives, which are scrambled badly - - for telling religious jokes. Some of the best jokes I know are about religion, as they tend to speak to truths about disputes in doctrine or dogma that are really funny. One of my favorites is from the late, great Jerry Clower, who told the story of a couple who wanted to marry. The father would not accept the presumptive daughter- in- law, however, because she was not a Baptist but some lesser Protestant faith, and had only been sprinkled on her head rather than fully- immersed for her baptism. The son offered his father a compromise: he would take the girl out into the river knee- deep with the Baptist pastor. The father refused; so the son came back and said his wife- to- be was ready to go neck deep. The father refused; soon the son said that his wife was prepared to go out into the river so far that only the top of her head was above water. This, too, the father refused. The son replied, "See? I knew it was just that little spot at the top that counted anyway."I thought of that when reading this piece by Christopher Hitchens on the jokesters of the day. His point is that liberal humor sneers at religion, but only when it is practiced by conservatives. Nevertheless, his examples are actually three very different types of humor. One of them is really funny: One could actually write a whole article simply on the Franken- Stewart faction’s attitude toward religion. In their world, the expressions Christian right or Moral Majority are automatic laugh cues, and there is a huge amount of soft- core borscht- belt stuff like this (from Franken) on page 2. The Truth: If it hadn’t been for Social Security, I never would have met Franni in Boston my freshman year, deflowered her, and gotten her to renounce the Pope. But I digress. And this, from pages 1 and 2 of Jon Stewart’s Naked Pictures of Famous People (his book America also carries a rib- tickling cover- line promise of Supreme Court justices posing nude) in a painfully unfunny essay/sketch titled “Breakfast at Kennedy’s,” set this time in Connecticut, at Choate: That’s where Jack and I bonded. I was the only Jew. My father ran the commissary so I was allowed to attend school there. My room, or the Yeshiva, as Jack called it (he really wasn’t prejudiced and would often defend me to the others as a “terrific yid”), was a meeting- place and a hotbed for hatching great pranks … I’m sure the ample supply of brisket and whitefish from Dad helped. And in a more goyish form from Stephen Colbert, by no means to be outdone, on page 5. I Am America: Now, I have nothing but respect for the Jewish people. Since the Bible is 1. Word of God, and the Jews believe in the Old Testament, that means Judaism is 5. If you chance to like this sort of thing, then this is undoubtedly the sort of thing you will like. It certainly works very well with audiences who laugh not because they find something to be funny, but to confirm that they are—and who can doubt it?—cool enough to “get” the joke. What you will not find, in any of this output, is anything remotely “satirical” about the pulpit of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.. The first piece is merely sneering and hateful, as Mr. Hitchens says. It's not the least bit amusing, except perhaps in the sense that Mr. Frankin is suggesting that a woman might prefer his love to the faith in which she was raised. But people do, sometimes; I've known both men and women who converted to new religions in order to marry, and in fact, we started with a joke on that very subject. That joke was funny because it smiled at the underlying differences; this one was not. The second isn't really a religious joke at all, but an ethnic joke. It has nothing to do with doctrine, but is simply about being a minority among a majority. It's the same point that used to be made by black comedians, which is that blacks were once fully acceptable in American society if they were jokers or played in sports. Here, too, we have Mr. Stewart saying that he was accepted as a minority, but only because he provided some benefit to the majority - - humor, a place to plot pranks, free food. The Colbert joke, though, is really funny. It underlines the oddity of the phenomenon that Israel's closest and most dependable ally is evangelical, even sometimes fundamentalist, Protestants in America. It even indicates the direction of the truth of that phenomenon, though of course - - being only a joke - - it doesn't adequately explain it. You can enjoy such a joke even when it makes fun of you. This is described as a conservative joke: A driver is stuck in a traffic jam going into downtown Chicago . Nothing Is Moving north or south. Suddenly a man knocks onhis window. The driver rolls down his window and asks, ‘Whathappened, what’s the hold Up?’‘Terrorists have kidnapped Barack Obama, Hillary. Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid,Rosie O’Donnell, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton. Theyare asking for a $1. Million ransom. Otherwise, they aregoing to douse them with gasoline and set them on fire. Weare going from car to car, taking up a collection.’The driver asks, ‘On average, how much is everyone giving?’‘About a gallon’That's a funny joke! But is it a joke about President Obama, etc., or is it a joke about conservative reactions to them?
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