Eugenics and Forced Sterilizations

Population control is not a conspiracy theory, but a fact grounded in history and supported by many Governments around the globe. Even as I write, forced population control is ongoing in some countries. Initially, the desire to control the population of certain tribes, groups of people, and races was done to take away their land (as in Australia and North America and in the Armenian genocide) and to keep them from multiplying to become a dominant force. Such forced population control policies were rampant and done through wars that killed thousands of people (genocides). Indeed, genocides have almost mostly been carried out to reduce and remove a certain race and tribe in order to have one race or tribe become dominant in a country.

However, with the onset of eugenics, the reason for population control changed, although the methods remained the same. The use of eugenics as a means to stop some people from giving birth became popularized in America and spread throughout Western Europe. In America, proponents of eugenics began pushing for the forced sterilization (destroying a person’s ability to give birth) of criminals, the deaf and blind, drunkards, poor people, people with mental disease, disability/paralysis, autism, and epilepsy. The arguments of these supporters of eugenics were that these socially unfit individuals will transfer their “bad genes” of diseases, poverty, crime, deafness, blindness, paralysis, alcoholism, immorality, etc. to their children. Therefore, it was a necessary evil to keep them from giving birth. It was also necessary to keep such people from emigrating from other countries to America. Hence, the American eugenics movement was in two folds: to keep people identified as socially unfit from procreating within America and also keep such individuals from immigrating into America.

Take note that people who were bastards (i.e., people without married parents or people born out of wedlock) and people who gave birth without being married, were seen as immoral, promiscuous, fornicators, and adulterers. Such women were thus classified as “feeble-minded” and socially unfit to procreate as their offspring will also give birth out of wedlock. Therefore, in 1907, Indiana became the first State in the United States to legalized forced sterilization of males and females in prisons as a means to keep crime from being passed down to their children. Other 31 States also passed sterilization laws of their own after Indiana started. These forced sterilizations expanded from prison inmates to people in mental homes, autistic people, etc. until the 1920s when they shifted to the sterilization of racial minorities.

White people (immigrants) from Italy and parts of Eastern and Southern Europe, Latinos, as well as Asians, were also classified by eugenicists as socially unfit as they were more likely to be criminals and drunkards who ended up in prisons. Hence, efforts were made to stop the immigration of people from such countries into the United States by putting in place a quota system that determined the number of people that could enter the USA from such countries. Additional intelligence tests were also enacted to ensure that only “intelligent” people from such places were allowed into the USA. So strong was the eugenics sentiment in the US that several presidents and lawmakers were influenced to pass the Federal Immigration Act of 1924. Although the quota given to these countries was adjusted from time to time, the law remained in force until 1965.

These forced sterilization laws that were passed by some of the States were unfortunately supported by the Supreme Court in the initial days. This emboldened the States to both secretly and openly castrate/sterilize both Blacks, Latino’s, and Native Americans as they were mostly poorer, uneducated, and thus classified as “socially unfit.” Indeed, it was argued that the negro woman was not capable of taking care of or raising a responsible citizen. Therefore, it was necessary to keep Black women from giving birth. With this notion, thousands of Black women were secretly sterilized without their knowledge or consent. Thousands of Latinos, Black, and Native American Indian women had their wombs removed or their fallopian tubes tied immediately after they gave birth in hospitals or even when they go the hospital for minor ailments like flu or headache. Some also had IUDs (birth control devices) placed in their wombs without their consent.

At every opportunity, they were lied to and secretly sterilized without knowing it. In some cases, they will be told that they will not receive any medical attention or even be administered painkillers if they don’t consent to have their wombs removed. Such measures were especially rampant in California where most of these sterilizations took place compared to the other states. These forced sterilizations continued and only slightly declined until after the 1970s. However, it is still ongoing today in the US against illegal immigrants who are detained in immigration facilities (especially in the State of Georgia). Several women who are caught by immigration officials are secretly sterilized in detention facilities against their will or are forced to do so in order to receive medical attention or to be allowed to remain in the US.

“By December of 2020, more than forty women had come forward with written testimonies stating they received invasive and unnecessary medical procedures while under ICE’s care. The attorneys handling these cases reported some of the women faced retaliation for speaking out, including deportation.”

Indeed, as recently as 2001, a Black woman called Kelli Dillon was forcefully sterilized in a California State prison because she was deemed as a financial liability for the state and could not support a child. She is among several victims that are still being forcefully sterilized in California prisons without her consent. It is estimated that between 60,000 and 150,000 people were forcefully or deceptively sterilized in the US during the 20th century. Yet, some states (31 states and the District of Columbia) still have these forced sterilization laws and in some isolated cases, males who have given birth to many children (7 in a particular case) and are unable to provide for them were forcefully sterilized by the court as a plea deal to keep them out of jail. In one case, the man had more than $100, 000 child support debt. He was asked by the court to avoid giving birth again or face harsher punishment. Beginning from California, several US states are now providing compensation to women and men who were forcefully sterilized in their prisons.

After eugenics lost its appeal, people had to find another reason to push the idea of population control: poverty and starvation. It was argued that having too many children will lead to poverty and at some point, starvation. Stanford University professors Paul and Anne Ehrlich wrote a book titled “The Population Bomb” in 1968. In this best seller, these authors argued that unless the World’s population was controlled, humanity will overgrow the capacity of the Earth, which will lead to mass starvation and human extinction. They created a picture of woe and the end of the human race unless the population of the world was controlled. Yet, none of those theories and predictions in that book came to pass! It however misled the world, world leaders, and many governments to institute forced population control policies, which affected the lives of many families wrongfully. Millions have been forcefully sterilized and denied the joy of childbirth because of this fear-mongering. Indeed, current climate change activists are also blaming overpopulation as a major cause of environmental degradation and climate change; hence, the need for reigning in the population of humans to save the planet.

Paul and Anne Ehrlich advocated for forced and government-controlled population control through compulsory sterilization as a means to save the planet. His views have affected millions of people whose governments adopted this false prediction. The authors have subsequently come under intense attacks and criticism for their alarmist and pessimistic views and predictions. They have come out to apologize and revise some of their predictions and warnings. However, the harm that has been caused by their actions cannot be undone. Indeed, based on these false predictions and suggestions made in this book, the US government adopted and pushed population control in many countries globally as the only means to end poverty.

Thus, population control is actually a US government policy not only in the US but also for the world. This will be fully detailed in the next article but suffice to say that the US government sponsors several governments worldwide through the USAID and the World Bank to support free or subsidized sterilization of women and men around the world. This program has been ongoing since the 1960s as a means to reduce the global population. The number of families that have been negatively affected by this policy and force, only Heaven can tell.

Happy Sabbath!!