Sentence examples for compulsory sterilisation from inspiring English sources

Compulsory sterilisation?

The controversy has revived concerns about compulsory sterilisation provoked by a case in the United States.

In 1934 a Department of Health report recommended compulsory sterilisation of the "feeble-minded".

At the end of the 1970s she favoured compulsory sterilisation of people with hereditary diseases.

Many prominent figures were influenced by Galton: Marie Stopes argued forcefully for the compulsory "sterilisation of those unfit for parenthood".

One local councillor infamously advocated compulsory sterilisation for benefit claimants who have had a second child or more.

Indira's unelected son, Sanjay Gandhi, led a campaign that made sterilisation compulsory for fathers who already had two or more children.

(Her Scottish counterpart, Marie Stopes, was also a proponent of eugenics and believed sterilisation should be compulsory for what she termed "unfit" parents).

Otto Hofmann (head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA)) and Wilhelm Stuckart (State Secretary of the Reich Interior Ministry) pointed out the legalistic and administrative difficulties over mixed marriages, and suggested compulsory dissolution of mixed marriages or the wider use of sterilisation as a simpler alternative.

That involved compulsory adoption and transfer of children to orphanages, and in some countries forced sterilisation, as well as the plentiful provision of compulsory low-skilled jobs and the prosecution of vagrants and beggars.

Voluntary sterilisation is precluded except for the diseases for which sterilisa tion is compulsory, and carriers of a hereditary disease may not be sterilised voluntarily.