Project Prevention
Having covered a lot of Swedish History, the topic of sterilization came up often, as it was a side affect of Swedish modernization that continued until the 1970's. Of course, I recently read about some Native American women in the US being sterilized in the 1970's, so Sweden wasn't alone.
Eugenics wasn't about just eliminating certain races, but reducing the number of unfavorable elements within society. Sweden justified this by having "voluntary" sterilization, although in practice this wasn't completely true.
In anycase, this site is about encouraging sterilization of drug addicts (specifically crack). Much like it was in Sweden, these efforts target women. Now, this of course isn't a government agency, so the sterilizations are completely voluntary. However, there is another fun twist, they pay these people to be sterilized. Nothing like giving drug addicts cash. The first 100 "clients" of this year received $500! I have no idea how much crack that would buy, probably a lot. They even set goals, they want to put 2006 drug addicts on long-term or permanent birth control by the end of this year. There's something a bit unsettling about that.
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