Eugenics, forced sterilization and victimization, Paul Lombarodo

Interviewee: Paul Lombardo. Eugenics, forced sterilization and victimization.

The eugenicists searched for "defective families," as they said -3 people who were poor, who had a history of crime in their family, or perhaps had a mental or physical disability. In many cases poverty stood for all of those problems, and it was the least favored in any community, who might be the focus of the surgeon's knife.

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