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Indiana Eugenics, Part 4: Speaking Up
September 25, 2007
Indiana enforced a eugenic law that allowed institutions to sterilize the "mentally defective" until 1974. One woman sterilized by court order in 1971 is speaking up and telling her story. WFYI's Mary Hartnett talks with Jamie Renae Coleman about her sterilization, the lawsuit she filed, and the effect it had on Indiana's law governing sterilizations outside of institutions. It's part four of the series "Indiana Eugenics."
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 1: The Eugenics Movement
September 25, 2007
Eugenics supporters believed they could improve society with sterilization and other progressive...
Indiana Eugenics, Part 2: Legalization
September 25, 2007
In the second installment of the five part series WFYI's Mary Hartnett explores how the state...
Indiana Eugenics, Part 3: The Process
September 25, 2007
In part three of the series, a look at how the process worked and why the program finally ended....
Indiana Eugenics, Part 5: A New Kind Of Eugenics?
September 25, 2007
These days, a lot ethicists, scientists and sociologists say we are in a new eugenics era....
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