The Eugenics Still Exists

THE EUGENICS STILL EXISTS:

Peru: Mass sterilization for Indian people

Between 1996 and 2000: more than 300 000 women were sterilized in the name of a fight against poverty. They have been deprived of the ability of having children because of a policy aiming at reducing the birth rate led by the neighbour the US and the World Bank. The latest thought that the increase in births is dangerous for the growth.

The main targets were Indian women from The Andes, Amazonia and shantytowns of Lima. Fujimori’s authoritarian regime even laid down some sterilization quotas.

Every mean was good to force women to do the surgery such as the promise of medical cares for their family, and some food as well. And for those who tried to resist, they had their tubes tied against their will.

The real motivations of this policy was not really done to seduce and help poor people but was led by racism because Indian women were considered as favourable to the Maoist guerrilla.

Under the pressure of several Non Governmental Organization and especially Amnesty International, the Peruvian Courts reopened this case the 26th of October 2011. According to Amnesty International: “Every women who were forced to had the surgery have to get compensations as it is planned by the International Law.” The institution also underlined the fact that “Every person has the right to take her own decisions about procreation without being the victim of any kind of discrimination.

QUESTIONS

Slovakia: The Romany: victims of what is called “usual racism”

In Europe, even if the third Reich is over, the elimination of the weakest and the selection of the strongest still exist in some places. The last cases of eugenics had been seen in the ex-Czechoslovakia in 2003. Slovakia was sentenced by the European Court of Human Rights for having inflicted inhuman treatment and infringed the respect of a young Romany family life. Indeed, she had been sterilized in August 2000 during her first child delivery. She was only 20 years old. The surgeons manage to make her accept to do the surgery by telling her that she couldn’t survive a new pregnancy. According to the estimations of the Center for Reproductive Rights, more than 110 Slovakian women were sterilized against their will since the fall of communism. This result from a statement asserted in 1970 that represent well the state of mind of the Slovakian Government: The main problem with Romany families is the lack of birth control that generates a low quality population with children that are born mentally deficient. And nowadays, this stigmatisation of ethnical minorities still exists. Indeed, in March 2010 Robert Fico, the Prime Minister asked to put Romany children in boarding schools in order to detach them from the life they had in the Romanian camps because otherwise the country would raise another generation of people useless for society.

QUESTIONS

France: Women with small mental deficiency sterilized against their will

In 2008, five mentally deficient women pressed charges against the European Court of Human Rights for being victims of a forced tubes tying. All these women worked in the same place: The CAT. The CAT led a policy that wanted to avoid children management problems and birth control. As a consequence of their policy, they talked rubbish to some of their women employees in order to make them have a sterilization surgery without warning their families.

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