Socialism and Sterilization

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"Never shut-up, Never cease, Never Forget."
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And we are back... again.
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In past post I have pointed out how eugenics was used to castrate and sterilize the quote "undesirables" of society. In Indiana alone thousands of people were sterilized against their will. And yet it seems that many seem to forget that these were all acts committed by governments and government sponsored healthcare officials.
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In the United States we today are happy to forget the eugenics in our past. After all, 23 states practiced eugenics in their attempts to sterilize almost anyone they wanted control over. Many would even tiptoe into the realm of euthanasia as a result of eugenics.
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So why today are we comfortable with a government controlled healthcare?
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On May 17th of 1934 Germany banned all Jews from it's national socialist healthcare system. This form of healthcare was free to all other Germans. In fact it was illegal for any doctor to refuse treatment for a patient unless of course the patient was Jewish.
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By July of that same year it was issued by Germany that Jewish doctors could no longer legally practice medicine. In other words it was illegal for Jews to have access to any form of healthcare.
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For the "undesirables" left in the system sterilization was a very real threat. Roma and other gypsy groups were often sterilized without consent or knowledge about what was happening. This practice would continue in much of Europe till the 90s. And in Eastern Europe the practice still continues till this day.
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Under Hitler's Germany healthcare meant population control. It manipulated who could or would have children. Forced abortions became mandatory when the state had "reason" to fear the would be child.
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State run healthcare in 1934 Germany spent very little time in sterilization. Hitler's ultimate goal of euthanasia and mass slaughter had to be realized. And thus Germany ran toward the end results of socialist healthcare... the killing of the "undesirables".
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Recently Obama's White House tried to violate the United States Constitution and our freedom of religion by pushing "birth control" upon the Catholic Church. Muslims also opposed the issue but were ignored due to not being an identified "voting block" in the Democrat Party. Yet what was ignored even more than the Muslims was the fact that abortion was a form of the so called "birth control".
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And that is where socialist healthcare edges it's way into genocide. It's tendency to brush the borders of tyranny have remained constant throughout the years. Obama's healthcare cannot avoid the pitfalls of socialism (the greatest pitfall of all being genocide).
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Socialized medicine leaves all societies open to the possibilities of abuse. When a society allows a government branch take control of a life and death issue such as this one it leaves itself at the mercy of a future genocidal regimes. It is only a short walk down the road from the hospitals where Hitler euthanized mentally handicapped to Dachau where Jews were gassed.
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On June 26Th of 1935 Germany made it mandatory for women to have abortions if the doctor believes the child may be "defective".
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Obama's administration did not name for what reasons a child should be killed. And when called out upon it they took a step back. But the socialist side of his healthcare system has shown through.
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In Europe's healthcare systems there have been endless stories of Roma being sterilized against their will. Many Roma in recent years have also come forward with claims of forced abortions. All helping to prove the tendency of socialized healthcare... the trend to control who has children and from who the next generation comes.
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In the end we will have to wait to see just how the "Obamacare" system works out. The Roma in Europe have been, all be it against their will, our canaries in the coal mine. But let us remember, those who do not learn from history are damned to repeat it.

How Attached to Your Balls Are You? Part Two

Indiana and Eugenics



Before the Nazis started using the "science" of eugenics Hoosiers had begun perfecting it. Indiana after all was the first state in the country (or the world for that matter) to pass a eugenic bases forced sterilization law in 1907. However even before the law was passed the Hoosier state had already begun forcibly neutering its "undesirables".

Much like Hitler's Nazis, the Hoosier State used its first sterilization law to target the socially undesirable. Among the list were "confirmed criminal", "idiots", "compulsive masturbaters", "imbeciles", and "rapist". The mentally ill or handicapped were the main targets however.

And like all things eugenic, the Hoosier law was designed to weed out the "2 percent of Indianans" who were "mentally defective". In other words, those the law deemed unfit to reproduce on the grounds that they were a burden to society would be fixed. The aim was to create a state that was free of the "undue burdens" that were holding Indiana's economy and society back.

Now to be fair 22 other states would follow Indiana's lead by implementing similar laws. However Indiana stands out for the fact that it struck down the first law in 1921 only to re institute it in 1925. And the second of the Hoosier eugenic laws would last till 1974 when it was finally repealed.

In all the sterilizations would amount to 2,424 people being sterilized under the guise of Eugenic "Science". Out of those 2,424 people there would be 1,167 males sterilized and 1,257 females sterilized. Of these 1,751 had been sterilized under the ruling that they had been found "mentally deficient while the remaining 667 were found to be "mentally ill". Dr. Harry Sharp however had done several hundred forced sterilizations before the law had passed so it is difficult to say how many people had been sterilized in Indiana for certain (Dr. Sharp was a eugenic believer and was estimated to have sterilized around 800 people before the law passed in 1907).

Of the people sterilized it is believed that poor whites from Kentucky and Tennessee were targeted due to their "social backwardness" and lack of ability to adapt to a modernized world. This tendency to target the "mentally deficient" allowed followers of the "Eugenic Science" to throw a wide net around any group they deemed "deficient" due to their economic standings. After all, eugenics teaches that the poorer classes are economically lacking simply due to their genetic inefficiencies.

This part of the history of Eugenics is not really talked about much or even studied in Indiana. Once can guess why. However in 2007 a marker was erected on the east lawn of the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis Indiana to commemorate those who were forcibly sterilized under the Indiana Sterilization Act. It reads:

"By late 1800s, Indiana authorities believed criminality, mental problems, and pauperism were hereditary. Various laws were enacted based on this belief. In 1907, Governor J. Frank Hanly approved first state eugenics law making sterilization mandatory for certain individuals in state custody. Sterilizations halted 1909 by Governor Thomas R. Marshall."

Continued on the reverse side:

Indiana Supreme Court ruled 1907 law unconstitutional 1921, citing denial of due process under Fourteenth Amendment. A 1927 law provided for appeals in the courts. Approximately 2,500 people in state custody were sterilized. Governor Otis R. Bowen approved repeal of all sterilization laws 1974; by 1977, related restrictive marriage laws repealed."

The related restrictive marriage law had forbid the marriages of people deemed to be "mentally deficient", those with a "transmissible disease", or the "habitual drunkard". This too had been enacted under the influence of eugenics (naively believing that only married people have sex).