The US was a leader in negative eugenics, and sterilized over 10,000 people against their will for sexual promiscuity, “feeblemindedness”, having children out of wedlock, being physically “unfit”, and many other things.
A Supreme Court ruling in Virginia that sided with the state was what Hitler based his eugenics laws off of.
This is what made the Holocaust legal in the Nazi empire.
Certain states sterilized people into the 1970s, NC being one of them.
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