Abstract
The development of the use of eugenic sterilization and the legislation involved in its use are reviewed. The 1st widespread use of sterilization was in 1899 at the Indiana State Reformatory. Several hundred operations were performed on consenting inmates. In 1907 Indiana became the 1st state passing a sterilization law followed soon after by California and Washington. Sterilization laws spread to Canada Denmark Switzerland and finally Germany in 1934. A complete review of 6000 cases of eugenic sterilization was sponsored by E.S. Gorney the founder of the Human Betterment Foundation in order to provide data for intelligent discussion of the matter. The issue of such sterilization reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1927 in the case of Buch vs. Bell in which a feebleminded institutionalized woman was allowed to be sterilizaed to prevent future generations of feeblemindedness.
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