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"California led the way in forced sterilizations
Thirty-two states had eugenics programs, but California outpaced them all.
California's movement was so effective that in the 1930s, members of the Nazi party asked California eugenicists for advice on how to run their own sterilization program.
"Germany used California's program as its chief example that this was a working, successful policy," Christina Cogdell, a cultural historian at the University of California-Davis and author of "Eugenic Design," told CNN in 2012.
California will pay $7.5 million to surviving victims of its forced sterilization program.
Eugenics, or the practice of sterilizing those determined by the state to be "feeble" or "undesirable," began under a law enacted in California around the turn of the 20th century.
An estimated 20,000 residents deemed "unfit to reproduce" are believed to have been sterilized in this practice, according to Unai Montes-Irueste, a spokesman for Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, who penned the new legislation.
"Those most targeted for involuntary sterilization were people of color, people with disabilities and the poorest and most vulnerable communities," according to a 2019 news release from Carrillo's office."
California will compensate survivors of its forced sterilization program
Thirty-two states had eugenics programs, but California outpaced them all.
California's movement was so effective that in the 1930s, members of the Nazi party asked California eugenicists for advice on how to run their own sterilization program.
"Germany used California's program as its chief example that this was a working, successful policy," Christina Cogdell, a cultural historian at the University of California-Davis and author of "Eugenic Design," told CNN in 2012.
California will pay $7.5 million to surviving victims of its forced sterilization program.
Eugenics, or the practice of sterilizing those determined by the state to be "feeble" or "undesirable," began under a law enacted in California around the turn of the 20th century.
An estimated 20,000 residents deemed "unfit to reproduce" are believed to have been sterilized in this practice, according to Unai Montes-Irueste, a spokesman for Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, who penned the new legislation.
"Those most targeted for involuntary sterilization were people of color, people with disabilities and the poorest and most vulnerable communities," according to a 2019 news release from Carrillo's office."
California will compensate survivors of its forced sterilization program
