![]() ![]() This never became law, but instead the UK’s Mental Deficiency Act was passed in 1913 (and stood until 1959) to isolate these people in institutions. ![]() Enforced sterilisations for those deemed undesirable or ‘feeble-minded’ – including those of low IQ – were considered by Winston Churchill when he was Home Secretary. In Nazi Germany, the ideology was harnessed to murder millions of Jewish people, plus hundreds of thousands of people with physical disabilities or mental illnesses and gay people, among others.īut it was also used in America to sterilise some 70,000 people in the 20th Century. Geneticist Francis Galton and Ronald Fisher were among its scientific proponents, while Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt as well as Adolf Hitler were staunch political advocates. Geneticist Francis Galton (above) and Ronald Fisher were among its scientific proponents, while Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler were political advocates ![]()
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