dawndeleon wrote:
what's next? Forced sterilization?
That's already been done. According to a Wikipedia article, "over 65,000 individuals were sterilized in 33 states under state compulsory sterilization programs in the United States."
The United States was the first country to enact forced sterilization programs for the purpose of eugenics in 1907 and it increased in other states after the Supreme Court in the case of Buck vs Bell in 1927 ruled that it is constitutional for the government to forcibly sterilize mentally ret*d people against their will. Most sterilizations took place in state-run psychiatric hospitals. The last forcible sterilization occurred in 1981 but since the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of it, it could be reintroduced if the government wants to do it again.
From Wikipedia:
"The principal targets of the American program were the mentally ret*d and the mentally ill, but also targeted under many state laws were the deaf, the blind, people with epilepsy, and the physically deformed. Native Americans, as well as Afro-American women , were sterilized against their will in many states, often without their knowledge, while they were in a hospital for other reasons (e.g. childbirth)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_ste ... ted_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell