Mike,

Sterilization of PWD's was practiced in the US as recently as the 1960's, I
think in either North or South Carolina.  My Mom did her nurses training at
the University of Iowa from 1947 to  1951, and part of it was at what was
referred to as "The Hospital School," which was a residential school and
treatment facility for PWD's, and girls with disabilities were often
sterilized, although I'm pretty sure it was with parental consent.  Back in
the late 70's my mom and I had some interesting discussions about this, as I
was very uncomfortable with where the line would be drawn as far as degree
of disability.  At that time, Mom defended the practice, but after Janet and
I got married, she came around 180 degrees.  Janet was a student at the UI
Hospital School in 1966 and 1967, as the small town (pop. 3000) she was from
in Iowa didn't have the OT and PT services she needed at the time.


On 12/29/06, Mike Collis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Kat, that doesn't surprise me.  The U.S. sterilized pwd's and other
> marginalized members of society in the 1920's and '30's.  This was
> indirectly responsible for the "Little Holocaust" of Nazi Germany in which
> more than 500,000 pwd's were killed before the big one of 6 million Jews.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Kathleen Salkin
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:30 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Shocking Revelation
>
> Now, some of you Aussies (or WWII history buffs) might have known of
> this sort of thing:
>
> http://www.answers.com/topic/f-gwynplaine-macintyre
>
> But I must admit this is the first I have ever heard of such a thing
> - child slave labor in Australia after the war!  True, this poor
> man's family took his name, his birthright and his freedom away from
> him because he was disabled but this is sadly all too common in third
> world countries.  I cannot conceive of a  forward-thinking country
> like Australia utilising child slave labour, especially in the 20th
> Century.  I find it just as inconceivable that a British family
> should allow such a thing to happen to their child when government
> assistance was available. (Or was it back then, in 1954, Deri?)
>
> Any comments on this from the Australians on this list?
>
> The irony of the whole thing is, his family tried to reconcile with
> him, only to have him find out that they only wanted a kidney for his
> non-disabled fraternal twin brother.  What selfish creatures!
>
> Kat
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