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[Seed] Cases of sterilization shock Michigan

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Sterilization in Michigan January 22, 1934

This blurb from the 1930's discusses the practice of sterilizing children with inferior genes in Michigan institutions under Michigan's eugenics laws.

During the past four years 14 boys and 47 girls of the Wayne County Training School have been rendered incapable of passing on their defects to a new generation. At the larger Lapeer Home & Training School 216 males and 688 females have similarly been sterilized. Practically all this has happened under Michigan's 1929 law permitting sterilization in certain cases.*

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This seed planted in the article Edwin Black.

The text of this blip says just about everything, except notice the tone of the article. It doesn't, at least to me, seem entirely disapproving, and that's almost as interesting as the fact of hundreds of sterilized children in Michigan public boarding schools.

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