Eugenics in America

State Secret: Thousands Secretly Sterilized

ABC News reports that thousands of people were secretly sterilized by the state between 1929 and 1974.

From the early 1900s to the 1970s, some 65,000 men and women were sterilized in this country, many without their knowledge, as part of a government eugenics program to keep so-called undesirables from reproducing.

Posted May 19, 2005 7:07 AM