They were wives and daughters. Sisters. Unwed mothers. Children. Even a 10-year-old boy. The sterilization program ended in 1974, but its legacy will not go away. Many of its victims are still alive and they bear witness to a bureaucracy that trampled on the rights of the poor and the powerless.
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/lifting-the-curtain-on-a-shameful-era/article_fa19404e-8fdf-11e2-8fba-0019bb30f31a.html?mode=jqm
The 'illegitimate', who became the adopted offspring in conversion therapy for the Catholic Church. Castration gave way during the postwar period to individual and group psychotherapy. However, mixed results renewed support for sterilization and castration as well as for electroshock, insulin shock, lobotomy, and aversion therapy. Insulin shock therapy was the preconditioning of conversion therapy. For the boys created sopranos for the Melbourne Catholic Church in conversion therapy
Friday, 9 January 2015
Against Their Will
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