Eugenics & Sterilization!

Imagine that! Not too long ago, you could have been sterilized by force! Yes, by force!

It was the law of the land; a democratically chosen legislation that became an Act. It was in place in Canada, my home country, in both Alberta and British Columbia. It was called the Sexual Sterilization Act. If you were deemed “mentally deficient” you would be sterilized because the society cannot tolerate that you pass on your mental deficiencies to children!

 Read this:

“Individuals were assessed using IQ tests such as the Stanford-Binet. This posed a problem to many of the new immigrants arriving in Canada, as their lack of mastery with the English language often led to scores denoting them as having impaired intellectual functioning. As a result, many of those sterilized under the Albertan eugenics movement were immigrants who did not necessarily fall into the category.”

– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

Imagine that! And this went on till the early seventies!