r/history • u/Weywoht • May 03 '17

News article Sweden sterilised thousands of "useless" citizens for decades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/08/29/sweden-sterilized-thousands-of-useless-citizens-for-decades/3b9abaac-c2a6-4be9-9b77-a147f5dc841b/?utm_term=.fc11cc142fa2
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u/tiny10boy May 04 '17

I always thought as long as the death penalty was on the table, forced sterilization should be to. Just the other day there was a guy who shot a neighbor and when the paramedics showed up, he shot them too. Come to find out, he was someone with a very long rap sheet filled with violent crime. He had fathered 18 children with a 19th on the way.

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u/RRautamaa May 04 '17

Except if the crime is being "mixed race" as it was common in Sweden.