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Quotes About Sterilization

Kills all known germs.
~ Anonymous
Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance ' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.
~ John Cornyn
By the end of 1939, 40,000 Americans had undergone involuntary, unconsented sterilisation. But at least nobody had been killed.
~ Gareth Williams
But it seems she'd wanted children after all, because when she was told she'd been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.
~ Margaret Atwood
Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life
~ Elon Musk
Enforced sterilization and unavailable abortions are tools of oppression against Black women, as is rape.
~ Audre Lorde
Se suele decir que la luz del sol es el mejor de los desinfectantes.»
~ Steven D. Levitt
En Colombia no hay más esterilizada que ella misma, a la que, como con un cauterio, entre periodistas y políticos, la iglesia y la FIFA, le esterilizaron el alma.
~ Fernando Vallejo
He agreed with Laughlin that sterilization was necessary in society "to prevent our being swamped with incompetence." Then he gave his solution: "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.
~ Bill Bryson
Altogether at least sixty thousand people were sterilized because of Laughlin's efforts. At the peak of the movement in the 1930s, some thirty states had sterilization laws, though only Virginia and California made wide use of them. It is perhaps worth noting that sterilization laws remain on the books in twenty states today.
~ Bill Bryson
One might have complained about the soot and ashes or about the pipes and curtain rods that hung crazily from the ceiling, but patients never lived in a hospital ward so nearly free of bacteria as this one that was sterilized by fire.
~ Michihiko Hachiya
When Adolf Hitler was imprisoned in 1924, he learned of the Kallikaks in a book he read about heredity. Soon after, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, in which he mimicked the language of American eugenicists, declaring that sterilization of defective people "is the most humane act of mankind.
~ Carl Zimmer
To eliminate feeblemindedness, Goddard rejected the calls of people like McKim to kill the feebleminded. But he did want to make sure they didn't get to have children. And by "they," Goddard mostly meant women.
~ Carl Zimmer
Des « bâtards du Rhin », environ la moitié (soit trois cent quatre-vingt-cinq) fut stérilisée23.
~ Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
The 1927 Supreme Court ruling that allowed Carrie Buck to be forcibly sterilized gave every state the green light to continue or begin sterilizing those deemed unfit to produce children, all in the name of "race betterment.
~ Susan Meissner
Americans think we Brits drink tea because we're polite and genteel or something, whereas we really drink it because it's a stimulant and it's hot enough to sterilize cholera bacteria.)
~ Charles Stross
or mop up vomit and other bodily fluids from
~ Charles Todd
Eventually 400,000 Germans were sterilized, and the Vatican did not issue a Pastoral Letter against it for another decade, only after the tide of the war had begun to turn against the Nazis).23,I
~ Gerald Posner
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
~ A. Eustace Haydon
Oh, God," Shannon moans. "We have to boil water," I tell Kenny. "She wants Cup-a-Soup?" "No, it's to sterilize things." "What's that?" I start rummaging through my house looking for anything useful. I get a knife, scissors, salad tongs, clothespins, a bottle of whiskey. Kenny
~ Tawni O'Dell
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.
~ Indira Gandhi
We've sterilized war, made it easy. Stripped it of the smell of infection and the silence of death. We've bled off the terror and the sorrow. And because of us, the power to wage war now rests in the hands of cowards and hypocrites.
~ Kyle Mills
They knew that in the 1970s the Indian Health Service of the U.S. government admitted that thousands of Native women had been sterilized without their informed consent. Some called it a long-term strategy for taking over Indian lands, and others said it was the same racism that had sterilized black women in the South.
~ Gloria Steinem