Show A PLEA FOU FOR sterilization OF CRIMINALS epileptics IMBECILES AND INSANE lead head before lie utah state medicine ne association by dr C M dark clark ut continued from lust isome then ot all hereditary taints says dr K B laurent alcoholism is undeniably the most frequent and among criminals it Is found almost always alono alone or in fit conjunction with other taints it i atho most c common ause ot of degeneration and our prisons c aro are peopled mostly with dogens atos ates or the tha children of drunkards but asks aska the philanthropist cannot the criminal slid and tho the drunkard bo be reformed and tho insane bo be cured no thy practically all havo have inherited pe defects which wo we can noyer remove ani which they wit wil pass on oil to their progeny in a more aggravated form des investigation shows that at the freed criminals 79 por per cent cant return to a life of crime many in any of thorn thoin being undetected and all of them possessing tho power to hand on oil to posterity their deplorable weaknesses there Is certainly a unanimity of opinion on oil this view of heredity that any enfeeblement of a parent tends to reappear as of tho issue dugdale attests oven to the re lation of heredity to ila ho says may become a here lury characteristic and bo be perpetuated without any favoring environment to call it into activity wo we aro are convinced tile thou that tho the vast number of our aro are born ao an arid and that while environment and aral ning nang may ameliorate me ino condition on of their degeneracy nothing can over ever completely ren lovei tile degenerate taint with which they aro are born it Is to lio ila a general biologic law that the lower tho position or of an n animal in fit tho the scale ot of beings being tho greater greater its capacity for reproduction rapi of its kind this is truo true generally Ron orally in tile case of nian and goos goes far to oxil explain lain tho the exceed dang slowness slow noss of Iiii human nian progress not only are arc men of a sur arlor type kiich ca 1 more moio rare than choso of tile the inferior but tho the actor aro much more prolific our detectives tho the progeny ot of do generates absorb the nations capital a tho the rapid progress ot of the raco impossible during iho past year it cost tile the state of 0 utah to caro care for her it costs coats tile tho united states evory every year to care tile tho feebleminded feeble minded thousands te 6 caro tor for hor her insano insane hundreds to maintain her prisons 8 a ila ro re and Infirm arles wo we agree abreo that immunity is heavily burdened with idiots Itt lots morat moral imbeciles Imbe ciles hysterical and epileptic criminals and criminals who aro incurably insane in saile and I 1 think that you will also agree abreo that tho condition of this class of defectives with their accompanying conditions of poverty disease and crime are traceable to ono one fundamental cause depray deprati depra Td I 1 heredity knowing the cause we can rel remedy liedy this great great evil only by cani ing to broad breed strains which are weak and vicious herbert spenser says there thera Is no greater curse to posterity than that it at bequeathing them an all increasing population of Imbecile imbeciles Imbe ciles 1 idlers and criminals to aid tho the bad tn in multIPlY multiplying flig Is in ili effect the samo same as maliciously providing for our descendants ts a larger host qt enemies 1 how shall we hinder the detectives defectives from multiplying to prohibit their marriage Is useless thoy they will propagate their kind illegitimately to ro isolato them would men also bo be impracticable because of af tho enormous involved in maintaining them in isolation mcklim offers this remedy that our defectives bo be put to death in a gentle pal painless gless manner nut thoro there are a score of serious ab octlona ec tlona to be raised against this plan it would lossen the sanctity of life violate violat mans man ii natural right to live ritt alize the general corIs conscience clance and encourage murder by giving too 00 oo much power to ala who might tako take unprincipled advantage ot of the opportunities to wreak personal ven gance so with tho plans of prohibiting marriage and isolation tIc mcklos Kinis plan ot of putting to death beati all detectives defectives in 14 equally impracticable I 1 hut there Is a fourth remedy moro than any of those moro more simple and more hit humane mana it Is the proposed remedy of sterilizing all dri fac tives so BO that production will bo be impossible besides effectively hindering the defective from propagate contin und on page paco six alx lx A PLEA FOR sterilization OF CRIMINALS epileptics IMBECILES AND INSANE read before the utah state bl medical edical association i dy by dr C rl M dark clark of 0 fillmore utah i continued from pago page 1 I trip ing his kind it would also relieve tho state of its great burden of ext penso because of many of the defectives isolation would bo no longer necessary halt tile tho inmates of the asylums asylum for tile tho might inight bo be released and could take a share in fit tho fri horld i activities could become tit in dependants as Bor ser vanta vanto domestics domestico etc they would bo be rond rendered orold harmless by sterilization chica their insanity Is fit undoubtedly super induced liy excessive excess violation of passion so 80 too ton nil an enormous number of criminals would bo be cured of their vicious by tills athla operation and so oo ile ho rendered safe and serviceable servi ceab 10 riem members bora ot of society ao cloty this plan would interfere with tile the general productiveness of at our kind ahat it would do would bo be to insure each child of being divoll born because only tile the tuen mentally tally and physically it would bo be allowed to perpetuate their kind all 1 others would bo be sterilized atomized 1 tho the roll call then of all those with whom our remedy would deal consists of thil the following classes of individuals coming coining under absolute control of at tile the state idiots imbeck lies iles epileptics habitual drunkards all insane criminals and any other criminals who might ile bo adjudged incorrigible each individual of these classes would undergo thorough examination aini nation and only by due process of law would lie he be subject to the operation tho operations necessary for sterilization are arc as you all ki know biow very simple and attended with little or no danger to the patient dr C 11 II sharp of indianapolis la Is tile the originator of the operation of at vasectomy vasor tomy lie ilo says bay place october 1899 1 I have been performing an operation known as aa vasectomy toray which consists of Il gating and ing ft a small portion ot at the vas vaa defer ons ens this operation Is very easy to perform it requires about three minutes of bf time tho the subject returns to his work immediately suffering buffering no inconvenience and la is in 6 no way handicapped in hla his pursuit of affo liberty and happiness but Is effectually sterilized I 1 have been doing this operation for over nine years I 1 have forty five cases that have halve afforded splendid opportunities tor for post operative observation and I 1 have nov or seen any unfavorable symptoms i the operation for sterilizing tho the female Is more complicated 1 than ban that for or ho he male but Is attended with no word danger three oper iviona of this sort I 1 have performed in one case I 1 lid did a complete while in the other wo I 1 did an and amp tt ion of the clitoris I 1 am fully convinced of the advisability of per arming these hecq operations on defect ves the two latter operations I 1 bention were performed upon IT irp ocllo bonine who were lamat p t jio ilie utah county infirmary moth both vere the mothers of 0 chil tron iren they had succeeded in crim nally involving boys ol of 16 or 17 nars ears of age they were actually gully of masturbation and during durine ito ho period were beio almost riven criven insane by overwhelming BOX till ial pat isic they wore corint constantly antly ec coming ecoling woi we and w fearyl that tuy amy must be to tho the havn ul hoover Hoo llo devor vor the sight alight aeration pe ration of sterilization was performed and it completely changed their jua tures they lost logt their vicious tendencies beame of a sunnier disposition lon a brighter and and are now supporting s ay working as aa domestico domestics the operation was waa port formed an epileptic she was waa a married woman oman ho he of tour four bright children when site sho began to ake ake epileptic seizures sheso at lacks lacka occurred at drat only during her menstrual period gradually tho he length of tile the period of at epileptic attacks extended lateef over illy gly tile the whole month the huo jand fenerd insanity the tha surgeon advised sterilization providing the oman and her people gave consent fhe The operation was performed perform eid for the demoval of at both the ovaries and the iberus the woman completely comple tel re mined rarned her health and Is now en ell irely free from epilepsy lot let us now consider a number of at lount 0 n t in favor of sterilization in ho h drat place it absolutely topa irrea iro tion and second tho the operation Is attendant with practically no danger moreover his method of procreation Is immensely imm im esely mosely superior to all others proposed in this point that it Is ia endorsed by the persons subjected to it alit aall other methods place restrictions and therefore tie punishment on tho ha subject this treatment absolutely doos not behave we have in sterilization a fea feasell sill ble painless remedy and tt it Is up to the physician to use it in n riding the world of Us its cr criminals finals defectives and degenerate several everal states have already committees to examine detectives and have given girou surgeons the power to perform this operation let us agitate ate matter and see to it that utah Is in tho the front ranks in tits his vital matter of race improvement |