The Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 was a U.S. state law in Virginia for the sterilization of institutionalized persons "afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbe
Southwestern Lunatic Asylum in Marion, Virginia. Renamed Southwestern State Hospital and finally renamed the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute. Built May 17, 1887.
First opened in 1910 as the Virginia State Epileptic Colony
Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring or "Sterilisation Law" was a statute in Nazi Germany enacted on 14 July 1933, which allowed the compulsory sterilisation of any citizen who in
Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924
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Reich Law Gazette on 25 July 1933: Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring.