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Compulsory or Voluntary Operations, for Unfit Parents Now Effective.BY HAROLD PETERSCUnited irca„ staff Correspondent)Berlin, Toly 27— (U1'J—A sicrc, iar reaching sterilization law to I m pro ye the German race, became effective today with publication V.i the offtdar monitor,Both voluntary and enforced sterilization arc prescribed for persons whose - descendant* j/n held In the light of scientific knowledge to bo likely to inherit posies! or mental'defects- • .The tradition of medical secrecy i* scrapped. Physicians are mud red to reveal names of potlents who are liablo umlor the taw to compulsory sterilization.Defects rendering a subject Uablo tr sterilization aro . named a:; horodlfary Imbecility, insanity* mania, epilepsy, St. Vitus' dance, blindness, . deafness, alcoholism, bodlty deformity and schizophrenia.Undue schlzoprhcnia aro specified a large class ot montal cases,1 deluding- paranoia, pcrcccirtlon mania, demetla 'praeeox, and acute melancholia,The law makes mo distinction between e'oxes. ft providee that a. person nmy ask for an operation or that the legal guardian in the ease of a minor or a mentally deficient minor may do so ir. his behalf.Decision, In the. end, will rtcL ■with a'hereditary: court*' to be. eslabltehed. -with an appeal branch whose verdict will be final. Force Is provided in the evont that an involuntary subject for sterilizp.-f^ou will not consent to an operation.
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Dunkirk Evening Observer
Dunkirk, New York, US
Thu, Jul 27, 1933
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